NCT01496378

Problem Solving Skills Training For Parent Caregivers of Youth With Chronic Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 122 (actual)
• Sponsor: Seattle Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of problem-solving skills training (PSST) to reduce distress and increase coping abilities among parents of youth with chronic pain. We hypothesize that parents will complete the PSST intervention and will find it to be an acceptable and satisfactory treatment. We also hypothesize that parents who receive PSST will have less distress and better coping skills than parents who receive standard care, and that children of parents who receive PSST will have better physical and emotional functioning than children of parents who receive standard care.

Detailed description

Chronic pain affects 25-40% of children and adolescents, and results in significantly lower quality of life for these youth. Parents play an important role in how their children cope with chronic pain, and can also experience their own distress related to their child's illness. Parental psychological distress is widely recognized to be associated with poorer child adjustment. However, no interventions have been developed specifically to treat psychological distress in parents of children with chronic pain. Problem-solving skills training (PSST) has been shown to result in significant reductions in parental distress among caregivers of children with other types of chronic illness such as cancer. The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of PSST for parents of youth with chronic pain.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Abdominal Pain
• Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Problem-Solving Skills Training	Parents will receive 8, 1-hour sessions of individual problem-solving therapy over 8 weeks. Caregivers will complete the first training session and at least 3 subsequent sessions in person. Remaining sessions will be completed via telephone. In session 1, parents will be introduced to the PSST program and a rationale and explanation for problem solving strategies will be provided. During sessions 2-8, parents will identify a problem that they wish to work on. The therapist will use the primary cognitive-behavioral strategies of modeling, behavioral rehearsal, performance feedback, and generalization of skills in the process of teaching problem solving skills to parents. Parents will complete homework assignments to practice using the problem-solving skills in real-life situations

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-03-01
• First posted: 2011-12-21
• Last updated: 2020-01-02

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States