Educational Tools to Improve Beliefs About Pain and Reduce Pain-related Disability

Effectiveness of Different Educational Tools to Improve Beliefs About Pain and Reduce Pain-related Disability in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03301428

Enrollment

300

Registered

2017-10-04

Start date

2017-11-01

Completion date

2020-02-01

Last updated

2020-03-25

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Conditions

Beliefs, Disability Physical

Brief summary

This trial aims at comparing the effectiveness of different didactic tools developed for patients with chronic pain to correct misbeliefs and improve disability in patients with chronic low back pain

Detailed description

This trial aims at comparing the effectiveness of different didactic tools (an educational website vs a booklet) developed for patients with chronic pain to correct misbeliefs and improve disability in patients with chronic low back pain. Participants of the 2 experimental groups will be invited to use the tool they receive during a one-month period.

Interventions

OTHERRetrain pain educational website

Patients in this group will be invited to consult an educational website developped for patients with chronic pain

OTHERBooklet

Patients in this group will be invited toread an educational booklet developped for patients with chronic pain

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* individuals with non-specific persistent low back pain (pain \> 6 months) who had their pain assessed by their general practitioner or a specialist within the last 3 months

Exclusion criteria

* specific low back pain, * educational treatment (back school, cognitive-behavioral, pain neurosciences education) in progress or planned during the study period * previous consultation of the didactic tools investigated in the present study * nerve root compromise, * recent spinal surgery (\<3 months) * not fluent in French * no regular access to a computer and the internet * present follow-up by a psychiatrist

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire	Change from baseline to the three-month follow-up	Disability questionnaire
Pain Beliefs Questionnaire	Change from baseline to the three-month follow-up	Questionnaires to test patients' beliefs

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Brief-Illness Perception Questionnaire	Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up	Questionnaire about patients' beliefs/representations
Back-PAQ questionnaire	Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up	Questionnaire about patients' beliefs
Pain intensity	Baseline, one month after receiving the tool, one-month follow-up and three-month follow-up	Pain Numeric rating scale

Countries

Belgium

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026