Overview
- Health effects of mindfulness based stress reduction course versus usual care in treatment of back pain: a randomized clinical trial
- Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) course intervention for half of the research patients
- MBSR course lasts for 8 weeks.
- follow-up time 2 years.
- research data is collected by Recdap
- Working-age (18-64 years) patients with back pain in thoracal or lumbar area (NRS at least 4) with or without radiculation over 12 weeks will be recruited.
- The primary outcome measure is Numeric pain rating scale (NRS, 0-10).
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Working-age (18-64 years) patients
- Back pain in thoracal or lumbar area
- NRS at least 4
- With or without radiculative symptoms
- Pain duration over 12 weeks
- Pain can be localized or widespread
- Also patients with multiple pain are eligible
- X-ray or MRI scan is not needed
- Patients can be both gender
- Finnish language skills and adequate competence are needed for filling the survey forms and participation in interventions
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy
- Recent delivery (\<12 months)
- Mental health problems with psychotic symptoms
- Acute severe psychological trauma (3 months)
- Sings of back infection
- Acute severe trauma in the back (fracture)
- surgery (\< 6 months)
- planned surgery in the future
- tumor in the back
