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This study aimed to examine the effects of a multidisciplinary treatment program on health‐related quality of life of Iranian patients living with chronic low back, at 12 months follow‐up.

This study is an extended follow‐up of an original randomized, controlled trial with registration number NCT00600197. In the present study 87 patients in an intervention group and 91 patients in a control group were assessed at 12 months follow‐up. The intervention was a group‐based multidisciplinary rehabilitation program which continued by monthly motivational consultation by telephone from 6 to 12 months after intervention. Data from three standard measures, Short Form 36 (SF‐36), QDS and RDQ were collected at 3, 6 and 12 months follow‐up and analyzed through repeated measures analysis of variance.

Despite the similarity between the two groups who completed the 6 month follow‐up in …