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Trial reportJournal of occupational rehabilitation2023

Reducing Shoulder Complaints in Employees with High Occupational Shoulder Exposures: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Study (The Shoulder-Café Study).

J Trøstrup, P Frost, A Dalbøge, L R Mikkelsen, M T Høybye, L B Jørgensen, S D Casper, T M Klebe, S W Svendsen

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Trial report in Journal of occupational rehabilitation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03159910 (Reducing Shoulder Complaints in Employees With High Occupational Shoulder Exposures), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT03159910 nacompletednot on this map

Reducing Shoulder Complaints in Employees With High Occupational Shoulder Exposures: a Cluster-randomised Controlled Study (The Shoulder-Café Study)

TypeinterventionalSponsorCentral Jutland Regional HospitalRan2017 to 2020Enrolled110ConditionsShoulder PainArmsShoulder-Café, Shoulder-Guidance
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

J TrøstrupElective Surgery Centre, Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Falkevej 1-3, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark. jeatro@rm.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6439-4887
P FrostCentre for Social Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
A DalbøgeDanish Ramazzini Centre, Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
L R MikkelsenElective Surgery Centre, Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Falkevej 1-3, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark.
M T HøybyeElective Surgery Centre, Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Falkevej 1-3, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark.
L B JørgensenDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
S D CasperErgoPro, Ry, Denmark.
T M KlebeElective Surgery Centre, Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Falkevej 1-3, 8600, Silkeborg, Denmark.
S W SvendsenDanish Ramazzini Centre, Department of Occupational Medicine, Gødstrup Hospital - University Research Clinic, Herning, Denmark.
Aarhus University · DKRegionshospitalet Silkeborg · DKDanish Ramazzini Center · DKFrederiksberg Hospital · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo evaluate if a group-based Shoulder-Café intervention could reduce shoulder complaints more effectively than an individual-based control intervention in employees with shoulder complaints and high occupational shoulder exposures.

methodsA cluster-randomised controlled study of 109 participants from 60 companies in Central Denmark Region. Companies were randomised and allocated to either Shoulder-Café or control intervention. Participants in both interventions received a pamphlet on home-based shoulder exercises and a pamphlet with general information on reducing occupational shoulder exposures. They also had their occupational shoulder exposures assessed. Shoulder-Café participants additionally received three café-meetings with casual discussion, clinical shoulder evaluation, education about shoulder anatomy and occupational shoulder exposures, supervised exercises, workplace-oriented counselling, and an optional workplace visit. The primary outcome measure was the Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) at 6-month follow-up. Secondary outcome measures were the OSS at 12 months, Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire - Physical Activity at 6 and 12 months, and Patients' Global Impression of Change at 6 months. The study also included seven supplementary outcome measures.

resultsBoth groups improved from baseline to 6 months with respect to the primary outcome (P < 0.01). No group differences were found for the primary outcome (mean difference (MD) [95% confidence interval]: 0.3 [- 1.6; 2.2]) or secondary outcomes. The supplementary outcomes "felt informed about handling shoulder complaints" and "felt informed about reducing occupational exposures" at 6 months, and "Patients' Global Impression of Change" and "overall satisfaction" at 12 months favoured the Shoulder-Café intervention.

conclusionThe Shoulder-Café intervention did not reduce shoulder complaints more effectively than the control intervention.

trial registrationThe trial was registered at Clinicaltrials.gov on 19 May 2017 (ID: NCT03159910).

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Exercise TherapyShoulderHumansOutcome Assessment, Health CareShoulder PainWorkplaceExerciseOccupational groupsPhysical therapistsRehabilitationShoulder pain

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