Evaluation of Individual Health Coaching Sessions Provided by a Patient Expert As Part of Therapeutic Education for Patients Registered At the Chronic Pain Consultation
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: individual coaching.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Chronic Pain. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
As Part of Therapeutic Education for Patients Registered At the Chronic Pain Consultation
Overview
Chronic pain is defined as a persistent sensory and emotional experience, lasting for more than three months, and often resistant to treatment. It can result from various conditions, including life-threatening diseases, accidents, or therapeutic procedures like surgery or chemotherapy. Chronic pain significantly impacts a patient's physical and psychological well-being, often leading to body image issues and functional deterioration in daily activities, both at home and at work or school. The World Health Organization recognized chronic pain as a disease in 2019. Chronic pain patients must adapt to their condition, acquiring new skills and knowledge through therapeutic education. Group sessions, a key part of therapeutic education, help break the isolation felt by many patients, fostering shared experiences and mutual support. Since 2015, the Saint-Joseph Hospital's chronic pain consultation has offered group education workshops, inspired by those at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. However, many patients struggle to apply new skills independently after these workshops. In response, individualized coaching was introduced in 2020. This approach, led by a health coach who is also an expert patient, provides personalized support to help patients set and achieve realistic goals, fostering active engagement in their lives through tailored strategies and ongoing support. The main aim of this pilot study is to assess the quantitative and qualitative contribution of personalized support by an "expert patient" chronic pain coach (individual coaching), on the functional and emotional impact and emotional impact of their pain, in patients followed up in a chronic pain consultation and having group therapeutic education workshops.
Interventions
- Other individual coaching
in addition to group therapeutic education, the patient participates to individual coaching session and answers several Patient Reported Outcome to assess his wellbeing
Primary outcome measures
- BPI (Brief Pain Inventotry ) [Time frame: enrollment, 4, 6 and 12 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patient aged ≥ 18 years
- Patients followed in chronic pain consultations referred to the therapeutic education workshops
- Patient affiliated with a health insurance plan
- French-speaking patient
- Patient capable of giving oral, informed, and explicit consent
Exclusion criteria
- Patient with psychiatric disorders making inclusion in group workshops impossible
- Patient unwilling to participate in individual coaching sessions Patient under guardianship or curatorship Patient deprived of liberty Patient under legal protection Pregnant or breastfeeding patient
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Case-only
Study locations
France · 1 center
- Hôpital Saint Joseph — Paris
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06811077 · COADOL