The Effect of Pain Education Group Therapy and Its Impact on Chronic Pain, Kinesiophobia, and Physical Activity
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: pain education.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Chronic Pain. Basic parameters: 16 years — 65 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
- Estonia
- 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
Physical Activity in Patients With Chronic Pain, Its Adherence to WHO Physical Activity Recommendations, and Its Associations With Kinesiophobia, Central Sensitization, Depression, and Pain Intensity
Overview
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if pain knowledge group intervention among chronic pain patients would influence their level of physical activity, pain intensity, depression, kinesiophobia and central sensitization. The main question it aims to answer is: Primary hypothesis: pain education will decrease participants' depression and pain intensity and increase their physical activity. There is no comparison group. Participants will participate in a 6-week pain knowledge intervention where they will be learning about sleep, stress models, physical activity benefits, pain neurobiology, mindfulness, pain medication.
Interventions
- Behavioral pain education
In one group there will be 8-12 participants who will meet once a week during 6 -weeks time. The educational sessions will be 2-hours long including sometimes some exercises and also reflection of the participants.
Primary outcome measures
- Change of pain intensity from baseline to 6-weeks [Time frame: from enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks]
- Change of pain intensity from baseline to 6-weeks [Time frame: from enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Change in depression from baseline to 6-weeks [Time frame: from enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Pain lasting longer than 3 months,
- Consequences resulting from long-term pain (such as decreased physical activity, sleep disturbances, fatigue, low mood, etc.)
Exclusion criteria
- Surgery that occurred less than 3 months prior
- Fracture or limb trauma that occurred less than 3 months prior
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
Study locations
Estonia · 1 center
- Tartu University Hospital — Tartu
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07491549 · ChronicPain