Low back pain
Conditions
Interventions
For the study will be carried out a simple randomization it will be 72 volunteers, after the registrations the name of the volunteers will be placed in a list and the randomization will be in excel pr
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Sponsors
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Eligibility
Age
19 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Volunteers from 19 to 64 years of age; having low back pain that has persisted for at least three months and has been a constant problem for at least half of the days in the past 6 months, as it characterizes chronic low back pain according to the recommendations of the National Institute's task force report of Health from National Institutes of Health on research standards for chronic low back pain; access to the internet; and consent and availability to undertake the MBSR program
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: No have previous participation in a Mindfulness meditation program; not filling in or having any error in filling in personal data, missing important information such as name, age and contact details; use of psychotropic drugs; psychological/psychiatric treatment; neuropsychiatric disorders (such as dementia, dyslexia, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorder, autism, etc; and serious chronic conditions, such as cancer, severe heart disease, active tuberculosis, Parkinson's disease, etc
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| In this study, the intensity of the perception of low back pain of volunteers will be evaluated before the beginning of treatments and at the end of treatments and it is expected to find a positive effect of improvement of pain perception both in the physiotherapy treatment that will be performed by the control group and also in the mindfulness group. The intensity of pain will be verified through the score obtained by the response from volunteers on the catastrophic thinking scale on pain, which considers a score above 2 as the presence of high pain perception, and also the Roland-Morris Disability questionnaire, which considers scores above 10 as the presence of physical limitation due to pain. Moreover, the visual Analogue Scale that considering score above 10 as high pain. In addition, it is expected to find a positive effect after three months of the end of the treatments performed by follow-up, post-intervention, of responses to the same scales | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| In this study, the overall quality of life will be evaluated in addition to the perception and intensity of low back pain of the volunteers considering that a score of zero is the worst quality of life and score 100 the best quality of life score. It is expected to find a positive effect of improvement in the quality of life of all volunteers after the interventions and after three months of the end of the interventions | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactAlessandra Ribeiro
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Outcome results
None listed