Trial reportBMJ open2018
Pain education for patients with non-specific low back pain in Nepal: protocol of a feasibility randomised clinical trial (PEN-LBP Trial).
Trial report in BMJ open, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03387228 (Pain Education for Patients With Non-specific Low Back Pain in Nepal), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Pain Education for Patients With Non-specific Low Back Pain in Nepal: A Feasibility Clinical Trial
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Group Differences Between Countries and Between Languages in Pain-Related Beliefs, Coping, and Catastrophizing in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2020Pooled it
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- Multidimensional Recovery Trajectories Following Physiotherapy with or Without Pain Education in People with Chronic Low Back Pain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Causal Mediation Analysis of the Effects of Pain Education on Disability and Pain Intensity in Individuals with Chronic Low Back Pain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Cultural tailoring of pain management approaches: a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Development of pain science education for chronic low back pain in India.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2025Article
- Association of Health-Related Quality of Life and Pain Medication Perception Among Chronic Low Back Pain Patients at Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- Pain science education concepts for pelvic pain: an e-Delphi of expert clinicians.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A physiotherapist-led biopsychosocial education and exercise programme for patients with chronic low back pain in Ghana: a mixed-methods feasibility study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Article
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- Sports Stars Brazil in children with autism spectrum disorder: A feasibility randomized controlled trial protocol.PloS one · 2023Article
- Global health policy in the 21st century: Challenges and opportunities to arrest the global disability burden from musculoskeletal health conditions.Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology · 2020Review
- System strengthening to support value-based care and healthy ageing for people with chronic pain.Pain · 2019Review
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- Why clinicians should consider the role of culture in chronic pain.Brazilian journal of physical therapyArticle
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
introductionLow back pain (LBP) is the leading cause of years lived with disability in Nepal and elsewhere. Management of LBP that is evidence-based, easily accessible, cost-effective and culturally appropriate is desirable. The primary aim of this feasibility study is to determine if it is feasible to conduct a full randomised clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of pain education as an intervention for individuals with LBP in Nepal, relative to guideline-based physiotherapy treatment. The findings of the study will inform the planning of a full clinical trial and if any modifications are required to the protocol before undertaking a full trial. METHODS/ANALYSIS: This protocol describes an assessor-blinded feasibility clinical trial investigating feasibility of the pain education intervention in patients with non-specific LBP in a physiotherapy hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. Forty patients with LBP will be randomly allocated to either pain education or guideline-based physiotherapy treatment (control). Outcomes will be assessed at baseline and at a 1 week post-treatment. The primary outcomes are related to feasibility, including: (1) participant willingness to participate in a randomised clinical trial, (2) feasibility of assessor blinding, (3) eligibility and recruitment rates, (4) acceptability of screening procedures and random allocation, (5) possible contamination between the groups, (6) intervention credibility, (7) intervention adherence, (8) treatment satisfaction and (9) difficulty in understanding the interventions being provided. ETHICS/DISSEMINATION: The protocol was approved by Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC; registration number: 422/2017) and University of Otago Human Ethics Committee for Health (registration number: H17/157). The results of the study will be presented at national and international conferences and published in a peer-reviewed journal. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT03387228; Pre-results.
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