Who is eligible for clinical trial NCT05452876?

Participants must meet protocol criteria for Low Back Pain. Confirm exact inclusion and exclusion requirements with the study coordinator.

Does clinical trial NCT05452876 provide travel or cost reimbursement?

Check with the site coordinator at the participating facility for travel and lodging stipend availability, and for which routine-care costs are covered.

🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2025-08-28

Alberta Back Care Pathway (ABCp) (NCT05452876)

🟢 Recruiting Phase2 📋 Clinical Research Protocol Sponsor: University of Alberta

🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)

Every year, the pain, disability, addiction, and expense associated with LBP increase in Alberta. This escalation is largely because most people with LBP seek care from family physicians who are unable to provide effective, guideline-based interventions due to three recognized barriers: 1) a lack of training, 2) a lack of no (or low) cost access to these interventions and 3) a lack of physician time and reimbursement to deliver these interventions. As a result, most LBP care provided in Alberta is "low-value". With input from Alberta patients, healthcare providers, administrators and international scientists, the Alberta Back Carepathway (ABCp) was designed to overcome these barriers by giving family physicians a common, guideline-based approach to coordinate, assess and manage LBP patients in day-to-day practice. The ABCp trains family physicians to quickly and easily place patients into 5 categories each having evidence-based interventions that can be provided by physicians at no or low cost to patients and no net cost to the healthcare system. By designing the ABCp to resolve barriers related to training, access and delivery, the ABCp will "pull" rather than "prod" patients and clinicians toward sustained, long-term implementation of this cost-effective solution. This study is based on a multi-clinic, controlled, non-randomized stepped-wedge study designed for urban and rural primary care networks (PCNs). The primary outcome will be decreased healthcare resource utilization with secondary improvements in quality of life and opioid consumption. Overall, the savings realized through ABCp will create a self-sustaining, scalable solution for LBP care in Alberta.

Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (7 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (6 items).

Location: University of Alberta — Edmonton, Alberta

📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener

Instant Checklist

Check every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).

Licensed physicians in the Edmonton West Primary Care Network (EWPCN) and the Calgary Chronic Pain Centre (CPC)
Age ≥18 years; (no upper age limit)
English speaking and a resident of Alberta who have cognition and language sufficient to understand written information, and to provide consent.
Cauda equina syndrome or infection, fracture
Single or multiple items such as age over 70, female, significant trauma, and prolonged corticosteroid use)
Cancer (single or multiple items such as older age, and previous history of cancer)
For the CPC site specifically: additional requirement of depression and anxiety as rated using the PHQ4 exclusion will include score of 3 or greater on the first two questions combined and/or score of 3 or greater on the third and 4th question combined

Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:

Exclusion Criteria:
Low back pain is caused by a recent motor vehicle accident
WCB case
Any known contraindication to exercise (i.e., unstable angina, uncontrolled arrhythmia, severe aortic stenosis).
Current participation in a supervised exercise or rehabilitation program or enrolled in another interventional clinical trial.
Plans for, or undergoing, surgery that would involve the spine directly or indirectly or place them into a position where any of the interventions in this trial would be contraindicated as a result of the surgery.

🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.

📍 All Participating Trial Locations (1 Sites)

University of Alberta — Edmonton, Alberta

💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights

100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.

🏛️ View Official NIH Record ↗