ArticleSports medicine - open2025
Fears and beliefs about running in adults with chronic low back pain: a mixed methods study from the ASTEROID randomised controlled trial.
Article in Sports medicine - open, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundThe stigma that running is unsafe for people with chronic low back pain (LBP) persists, despite recent studies showing that running training is feasible and beneficial in chronic LBP. We examined the beliefs about running in adults with chronic LBP.
methodsForty adults (20 female, mean [SD] age 33 [6] years) with non-specific chronic LBP were randomised to a 12 week digitally-delivered run-walk interval training intervention or waitlist control (ACTRN12622001276741). Participants completed the activity specific beliefs questionnaire (4-point Likert scale) and recorded pain intensity at baseline and 12 weeks. Running intervention participants (n = 19) completed semi-structured qualitative interviews at 12 weeks.
resultsPrior to randomisation, 10 participants (25%; intervention: n = 6) reported that running was unsafe. At follow-up, greater mean improvements were seen in the intervention group in the belief that running is safe. Specifically, belief in the safety of running on gravel (β [95%CI] 0.52[0.20, 0.84] points, P = 0.001), pavement (β [95%CI] 0.54[0.18, 0.89] points, P = 0.003), treadmill (β [95%CI] 0.49[0.14, 0.84] points, P = 0.006), and sprinting (β [95%CI]: 0.56[0.06, 1.06] points, P = 0.029) improved more than in the control group. Reflexive thematic analysis identified four themes: (a) fear and concerns that running may increase pain or lead to an injury, (b) negative beliefs are influenced by healthcare professionals and past experience, (c) fears can be overcome and be replaced with new beliefs, and (d) positive experience drives change in beliefs.
conclusionsCompleting a 12 week run-walk interval training intervention led to more positive beliefs about running in adults with chronic LBP. The identified themes can assist clinicians in addressing barriers and facilitators to implementing running interventions for chronic LBP.
trial registrationAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12622001276741. Registered on 29 September 2022.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.