NCT01620983

Knee Arthroplasty Pain Coping Skills Training (KASTPain): A Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 402 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients undergoing knee replacement surgery and who have high levels of pain catastrophizing are at risk for poor outcome. The clinical trial is designed to determine if a pain coping skills training intervention delivered by physical therapists and supervised by psychologists is more effective at reducing pain and improving function and is more cost effective than arthritis education or usual care.

Detailed description

Approximately 25% of patients following knee arthroplasty have disabling pain following apparently successful surgery. Recent research suggests that pain catastrophizing plays a key role in determining which patients with knee arthroplasty have a poor outcome. In addition to this evidence, a substantial literature suggests that pain coping skills training is effective for patients with chronic pain but the intervention has not been studied for surgical patients with severe arthritic knee pain. We designed the Knee Arthroplasty pain coping Skills Training (KASTPain) trial to address this research need. This Phase III three-arm randomized clinical trial seeks to combine a strong and diverse group of researchers to examine an important and understudied area in the joint arthroplasty literature. The KASTPain trial will be the first to examine the utility of a perioperative pain coping intervention for this substantial population of patients.

Conditions

• Knee Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pain Coping Skills Training
BEHAVIORAL	Arthritis Education
OTHER	Usual Care

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-12-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-27
• Completion: 2018-06-30
• First posted: 2012-06-15
• Last updated: 2018-10-19
• Results posted: 2018-10-19

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: United States