Sabine Ludwig, Sabine Jenner, Ralph Berger, Sylvie Tappert, Christine Kurmeyer, Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, Mandy Petzold
Perceptions of lecturers and students regarding discriminatory experiences and sexual harassment in academic medicine - results from a faculty-wide quantitative study
BMC medical education
nonpharmacological interventions play crucial role management nonspecific chronic low back pain nsclbp one prime example tuina traditional chinese manual therapy incorporates pressing kneading rubbing techniques alleviate physical discomfort enhance overall wellbeing serves widely used technique china east asian countries however effectiveness safety tuina managing nsclbp substantiated rigorous clinical research sought carry randomised controlled trial openlabel design blinded assessors parallel arms assess effectiveness safety tuina treatment nsclbp trial aims provide highquality evidence regarding efficacy safety tuina improving outcomes patients nsclbp total 150 patients aged 1860 years nsclbp recruited participants randomly assigned one two groups groups receive standard health education addition treatment group receive tuina therapy control group participate core stability exercises group undergo total 18 interventions 6 weeks interventions administered three times per week primary outcome measure patients pain intensity assessed using numerical rating scale week 6 following randomisation secondary outcomes encompass disability measured rolandmorris disability questionnaire quality life assessed using euroqol5 dimensions questionnaire adverse emotions evaluated pain catastrophizing scale tampa scale kinesiophobia depression anxiety stress scale biomechanical outcomes socioeconomic indicators medication use healthcare utilisation absenteeism patient satisfaction treatment adherence relevant factorsthe statistical analysis follow intentiontotreat principle twoway repeated measures analysis variance used compare clinical data across different time points within groups study protocol received approval ethics committee shuguang hospital shanghai university traditional chinese medicine 2023136613301 study participants required give written informed consent findings study submitted peerreviewed journal publication presented scientific conferences additionally participants receive copies results chictr2300076257