Testing the Feasibility of Intervening to Optimize Chiropractic Care for Adults With Neck Pain Disorders

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 26 September 2016
• Main ID: NCT02483091
• Date of registration: 17/06/2015
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: McGill University
• Public title: Testing the Feasibility of Intervening to Optimize Chiropractic Care for Adults With Neck Pain Disorders
• Scientific title: Chiropractors Can Do: Testing the Feasibility of Intervening to Optimize Chiropractic Care for Adults With Neck Pain Disorders: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
• Date of first enrolment: June 2015
• Target sample size: 32
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02483091
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Phase: Phase 1

Countries of recruitment

Canada

Contacts

• Name: André E Bussières, PhD
• Affiliation: McGill University

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Chiropractors

Inclusion criteria:

- Registered with their professional licensing boards and in private practice in the
Canada;

- Graduated at least one year ago;

- Provide chiropractic treatment to a minimum of two adults (age 18-65) with neck pain
per week;

- Speak English or French; and

- Have access to Internet.

Exclusion criteria:

- Chiropractors will be excluded if they have already attended the webinar series or
the self-management learning module. Prior webinar and learning module participants
will have needed to register beforehand, which therefore provides the mechanism for
confirming study ineligibility.

Patients

Inclusion criteria:

- Attend a consenting chiropractor for non-specific neck pain of any duration;

- Aged between 18 and 65, with a primary complaint of acute (<3 months) or chronic (>3
months) neck pain presenting as a new condition for treatment at the participating
clinic;

- Fluency in English or French to a level where they can read and understand the study
information sheet, complete the consent form, and respond to the
telephone-administered questionnaire. This will be assessed by the staff member of
each chiropractor's team at the time of screening; and

- Provide written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria:

- Previous neck surgery;

- Presence of Red flags;

- Pregnancy; and

- Chiropractic care received in the preceding 3 months for a complaint of neck pain



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Neck Pain

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Multifaceted KT intervention

Primary Outcome(s)

Feasibility outcome (composite outcome measure) [Time Frame: 6 months]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Scores on measures of behavioural constructs (composite outcome measure) [Time Frame: 6 months]

Secondary ID(s)

G241013 R.E Strauss X-C 218563

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors