Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02475005
An Intervention to Improve Adolescent Headache Self-management
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1,200 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Stephen F Butler, PhD · Industry
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 13 Years – 17 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a new app to help adolescents with chronic or reoccurring headaches self manage pain.
Detailed description
Headaches dramatically affect adolescents' overall functioning and quality of life. We have developed a highly engaging mobile-based program that will help adolescents to make connections between behaviors and symptoms, and to ultimately improve functioning and quality of life. The mobile-based program will provide a state of the art pain tracker, a variety of coping strategies, and information about self-management of symptoms. This app will offer a maximally engaging way to help adolescents track their pain, make connections between lifestyle and pain, and learn key self-management skills. The study involves the participant being randomized into either the experimental group, where he/she will be using this mobile application to track their headache symptoms, or the control group, where he/she will receive headache treatment as usual; the control group will not be using an app for this study. The intervention will last for two months. Participants will be assessed at baseline, at 2-months post baseline, at 3-months post baseline, and at 6-months post baseline. All participants will be asked to complete online questionnaires about their headaches. We plan to enroll 144 adolescent participants with headaches, as well as one caregiver (meaning a parent/guardian) for each adolescent.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | pain self management app on smartphone |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2014-09-20
- Primary completion
- 2017-11-28
- Completion
- 2017-11-28
- First posted
- 2015-06-18
- Last updated
- 2018-02-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02475005. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.