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Trial reportBMC public health2015

Walking away from back pain: one step at a time - a community-based randomised controlled trial.

Stephan Milosavljevic, Lynne Clay, Brenna Bath, Catherine Trask, Erika Penz, Sam Stewart, Paul Hendrick, G David Baxter, Deirdre A Hurley, Suzanne M McDonough

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readComparative StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in BMC public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02284958 (A Single-centre, Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating Clinical Utility and Cost-effectiveness of an Individualized Pedometer Driven Walking Programme for People With Chronic Low Back Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT02284958 nacompletednot on this map

A Single-centre, Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating Clinical Utility and Cost-effectiveness of an Individualized Pedometer Driven Walking Programme for People With Chronic Low Back Pain

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of SaskatchewanRan2015 to 2017Enrolled174ConditionsLow Back PainArmsStandard, Walking
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Stephan MilosavljevicUniversity of Saskatchewan, School of Physical Therapy, 1121 College Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W3, Canada. stephan.milosavljevic@usask.ca.
Lynne ClayUniversity of Saskatchewan, School of Physical Therapy, 1121 College Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W3, Canada. lynne.clay@usask.ca.
Brenna BathUniversity of Saskatchewan, School of Physical Therapy, 1121 College Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W3, Canada. brenna.bath@usask.ca.
Catherine TraskUniversity of Saskatchewan, Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, 104 Clinic Place, PO Box 23, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 2Z4, Canada. catherine.trask@usask.ca.
Erika PenzRespirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan and Saskatoon Health Region, Royal University Hospital, 103 Hospital Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W8, Canada. erika.penz@usask.ca.
Sam StewartUniversity of Saskatchewan, Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, 104 Clinic Place, PO Box 23, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 2Z4, Canada. sam.stewart@usask.ca.
Paul HendrickDivision of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, School of Health Sciences, The University of Nottingham, B90, Clinical Sciences Building, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham, NG5 1PB, UK. Paul.Hendrick@nottingham.ac.uk.
G David BaxterCentre for Health, Activity, and Rehabilitation Research, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, 9054, New Zealand. david.baxter@otago.ac.nz.
Deirdre A HurleySchool of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, UCD Health Sciences Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. deirdre.hurleyosing@ucd.ie.
Suzanne M McDonoughSchool of Health Sciences, Institute of Nursing and Health Research, University of Ulster, Shore Road, Belfast, BT37 0QB, UK. s.mcdonough@ulster.ac.uk.
University of Saskatchewan · CANottingham City Hospital · GBUniversity College Dublin · IEUniversity of Otago · NZUniversity of Ulster · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLow back pain is highly prevalent and a significant public health burden in Western society. Feasibility studies suggest personalised pedometer-driven walking is an acceptable and effective motivating tool in the management of chronic low back pain (CLBP ≥ 12 weeks). The proposed study will investigate pedometer-driven walking as a low cost, easily accessible, and sustainable means of physical activity to improve disability and clinical outcomes for people with CLBP in Saskatchewan, Canada. METHODS/

designA fully-powered single-blinded randomised controlled trial will compare back care advice and education with back care advice and education followed by a 12-week pedometer-driven walking programme in adults with CLBP. Adults with self-reported CLBP will be recruited from the community and screened for elibility. Two-hundred participants will be randomly allocated to one of two intervention groups. All participants will receive a single back care advice and education session with a physiotherapist. Participants in the walking group will also receive a physiotherapist-facilitated pedometer based walking programme. The physiotherapist will facilitate the participant to monitor and progress the walking programme, by phone, on a weekly basis over 10 weeks following two face-to-face sessions. Outcome measures of self-reported disability, physical activity, participants' low back pain beliefs/perceptions, quality of life and direct/indirect cost estimates will be gathered at baseline, three months, six months, and 12 months by a different physiotherapist blinded to group allocation. Following intervention, focus groups will be used to explore participants' thoughts and experiences of pedometer-driven walking as a management tool for CLBP. DISCUSSION: This paper describes the design of a community-based RCT to determine the effectiveness of a pedometer-driven walking programme in the management of CLBP.

trial registrationUnited States National Institutes of Health Clinical Trails registry (http://ClinicalTrials.gov/) No. NCT02284958 . Registered on 27(th) October 2014).

Indexed as

WalkingActigraphyAdultCost-Benefit AnalysisFeasibility StudiesFemaleHumansLow Back PainMaleMiddle AgedQuality of LifeSaskatchewanSingle-Blind MethodUnited States

Identifiers

PMID25885913
PMCPMC4335545
OpenAlexW2109358724

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