The Ability of Chronic Pain Patients to Self-diagnose Their Chief Source of Low Back Pain

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The investigative team will provide 27 slides with bullet points and images of pain referral patterns for different causes (e.g., herniated disc, facet joint arthritis) for patients seen for a new visit with a chief complaint of chronic low back pain. This material is all publicly available but has been compiled in presentation form. This will have educational benefit for patients, discussing clinical signs and symptoms, risk factors and basic treatments. There will also be a smaller control group of that gets a condensed 4-slide presentation. After review of the slides, an independent observer will ask the patient what they think are the 2 most likely causes of their LBP (in order of likelihood) and match that with the attending physician and trainee, who will independently do the same. The investigative team will then determine how concordant the patient's answers are with the physicians and also record outcomes.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• • Age \> 18 years

‣ Primary complaint of LBP or sciatica

⁃ Duration of LBP \> 3 months

Locations
United States
Illinois
Northwestern University Pain Management Center
RECRUITING
Chicago
Contact Information
Primary
Steven Cohen, MD
steven.cohen@northwestern.edu
3126952500
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-10-16
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-10-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 269
Treatments
Experimental: Education
Educational initiative on back pain
Active_comparator: Control
Control initiative (non-comprehensive overview)
Sponsors
Leads: Northwestern University

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov