NCT01974791

GET Living: Graded Exposure Treatment for Children and Adolescents With Chronic Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The broad aim of the study is to implement and evaluate the efficacy of Graded Exposure Treatment (GET Living) to target elevated pain-related fears in children with chronic pain. Pain-related fear is an important psychological factor associated with poor outcomes in children suffering with chronic pain. To examine the efficacy of GET Living in addressing pain-related fears the investigators propose to use a sequential replicated randomized single-case experimental phase design with multiple measures. The specific aims are to 1) evaluate the effectiveness and acceptability of individually tailored GET Living for children with high pain-related fear and functional disability and 2) define anatomical and resting state connectivity patterns in the brains of children and adolescents with complex chronic pain prior to and after participation in GET Living.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Neuralgia
• Musculoskeletal Pain
• Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	GET Living	GET Living is an exposure based treatment jointly delivered by a cognitive-behavioral therapist and physical therapy to help children and adolescents suffering with chronic pain and headache progressively return to valued life activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2018-01-01
• Completion: 2018-01-01
• First posted: 2013-11-04
• Last updated: 2018-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States