NCT02133976

Comparative Mechanisms of Psychosocial Chronic Pain Treatments

Comparative Mechanisms (Mediators, Moderators) of Psychosocial Chronic Pain Treatments

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 521 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rush University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Psychosocial interventions are attractive options for treating chronic low back pain, and many approaches now have strong support for efficacy. However, few empirical data address whether psychosocial pain treatments work because of mechanisms specified by theory, and thus investigators know very little about HOW our treatments work. It may be that different treatments work via distinct pathways that are specific to a given treatment (single effect model), or it may be that different treatments work to the extent they all operate via key mechanisms that they share (additive effects model). Examination of specific and/or shared effects on outcomes of mechanisms will provide theoretical and empirical rationale for enhancing procedures and techniques most closely linked to strong outcomes and incorporating them into future interventions, while limiting the use of others that may be revealed as inert.

Conditions

• Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	cognitive therapy
BEHAVIORAL	mindfulness training
BEHAVIORAL	behavioral therapy
OTHER	treatment as usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2018-09-01
• Completion: 2019-07-01
• First posted: 2014-05-08
• Last updated: 2024-05-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States