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- Title
Efficacy of an innovative smartphone application for office workers with chronic non-specific low back pain: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
- Authors
Almhdawi, Khader A; Obeidat, Donia Saleh; Kanaan, Saddam F; Oteir, Alaa O; Mansour, Zaid Modhi; Alrabbaei, Hassan
- Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a newly developed evidence-based low back pain (LBP) management smartphone application. Design: A double-blinded randomized controlled trial where participants randomly assigned to either an experimental group (EG) or a control group (CG). Setting: Governmental and private institutions. Participants: About 40 office workers, aged 30 to 55 years, had pain due to non-specific LBP > 3 on Visual Analogue Scale, and with pain chronicity > 3 months. Interventions: The EG received full version of the application 'Relieve my back' included evidence-based instructions and therapeutic exercises for LBP management, whereas the CG received placebo version included instructions about nutrition. Main measures: Primary outcome measures included pain measured by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), disability measured by Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), and quality of life measured by Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12). Results: Following six weeks of using the application, compared to CG, the EG group demonstrated significant decrease in pain intensity (−3.45 (2.21) vs −0.11 (1.66), P < 0.001), in ODI score (−11.05 (10.40) vs −0.58 (9.0), P = 0.002), and significant increase in physical component of SF-12 (12.85 (17.20) vs −4.63 (12.04), P = 0.001). Conclusion: 'Relieve my back' application might be efficacious in reducing pain and disability and improving the quality of life of office workers with non-specific LBP.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; CHI-squared test; CHRONIC diseases; COMPUTER software; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; MULTIVARIATE analysis; QUALITY of life; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; T-test (Statistics); PILOT projects; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); RANDOMIZED controlled trials; VISUAL analog scale; SMARTPHONES; BLIND experiment; MOBILE apps; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; LUMBAR pain
- Publication
Clinical Rehabilitation, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 10, p1282
- ISSN
0269-2155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269215520937757