NCT02531282

Effect of a Health Promotion Intervention for People With Chronic Pain at a Healthy Life Centre

Effect of and Experiences With a Health Promotion Intervention for People With Chronic Pain at a Healthy Life Centre - an Open, Pragmatic, Randomized Controlled Trial With a Nested Qualitative Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 121 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study's primary objective is to test the hypothesis that a group-based health promotion intervention with patient education and practical exercises delivered at a Healthy Life Centre increases patient activation in people living with chronic pain. Due to many people living with chronic pain, interventions focusing on self-management and coping are on the agenda in primary care. This study will investigate whether a Healthy Life Centre in a municipality is a suitable setting for interventions targeting people living with chronic pain. Short and long term effect of an intervention developed in a health promotion and salutogenic framework will be investigated in a randomized clinical trial.

Detailed description

Previous research indicates that if self-management interventions are developed within a health promotion framework focusing on the participants' strengths, there is a beneficial effect on patient activation and thus on self-management behaviour. However, there is a lack of knowledge about which interventions will improve patient activation for persons with chronic pain. To be sustainable, such interventions should be delivered using the least possible amount of resources needed to get an effect. One way to do so is to deliver the intervention in primary care instead of in hospitals. The Healthy Life Centre is ideally situated to deliver these interventions. This is especially true due to their task of focusing on health promotion but also because they are set up to deliver low level interventions, meaning that it should be easy for everyone to access their services.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Patient education	Self-management patient education in groups once a week for 6 weeks. Each session include pain-related theory, group discussions and physical exercises focusing on posture and relaxation. Instructors with education in health promotion and behavioural change in addition to psychomotor physiotherapy.
BEHAVIORAL	Physical activity	Physical activity once a week for a period of 6 weeks in form of walking and simple strength exercises outdoor in groups led by an instructor. Each session has a duration of one hour. The instructor has education in physical activity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-04
• Completion: 2017-12-04
• First posted: 2015-08-24
• Last updated: 2019-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway