Effectiveness of A Telehealth Postural Awareness Program Combined With Exercise In People With Neck Pain

Hacettepe University40 enrolled

Overview

People with neck pain often experience pain, neck disability, and poor quality of life. Postural-based awareness programs are evidence-based interventions for postural problems and neck pain disorders. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a telehealth physiotherapist-delivered postural awareness program combined with exercise in people with neck pain. Pain, neck disability, leisure time management, and exercise stage of change were evaluated.

Pain with visual analog scale, neck disability with Neck Disability Index, Leisure time management with Leisure Time Management Scale, and exercise stage of change with exercise Stage of change Scale were determined. The authors aim to find out if there are any changes before and after the program on the pain, neck disability, and evaluation subscale of the leisure time management scale, and exercise stage of change of participants.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Neck Pain

Interventions

A postural awareness program with exercisesBEHAVIORAL

A program about postural awareness, bad posture, good posture and their effects on daily life

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 60 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * being aged 18 years or over, * volunteering to take part in the study, * being a student of online education, * without a history of any neurological or orthopedic problem, * with resting neck pain (as measured by the VAS) lasting ≤30 days * that is aggravated by movement without extending distal to the shoulders. Exclusion Criteria: * rheumatological diseases, malignity or structural deformities, * previous surgical intervention related to the neck region, * severe pain (more than 7 in 0 to 10 VAS)

Locations (1)

Tezel Yıldırım Şahan

Ankara, Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Neck pain

Visual Analog Scale- The evaluations of this study was performed at beginning and end of study. Neck pain was determined with Visual Analog Scale with 0 indicating "no pain", 10 indicating "the most severe pain

Time frame: 5 minute

Secondary Outcomes

Neck Disability

Neck Disability Index-The Neck Disability Index consists of 10 items: pain intensity, personal care, lifting, reading, headache, concentration, work, driving, sleeping and recreation. Individuals included in the study were asked to rate each title between 0 (no disability) and 5 (complete disability). The total score ranges between 0 (no disability) and 50 (complete disability)

Time frame: 10 minute

Leisure Time Management

Leisure Time Management- This scale consists of four sub-dimensions and 15 items. These sub-dimensions were investigated as "evaluation", "programming", "leisure attitude", "goal setting and method". The answer codes of each item vary between 1 and 5 as a Likert type.

Time frame: 10 minute

Exercise Stage of Change

Exercise Stage of Change Scale-The "Exercise Behavior Change Steps Questionnaire" aims to determine the individual's exercise behavior steps. The four items in the questionnaire, in which the participants' wishes for exercise are tried to be determined, are answered as yes/no. Individuals' intention to exercise and their habits of participating in exercise are divided into five different exercise behavior steps according to their responses to the items: Pre-tendency, Tendency, Preparation, Movement and Continuity.

Time frame: 10 minute

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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