NCT02547415

Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents.

Study of Characteristics of Medically Unexplained Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Medically unexplained chronic pain - without identifiable somatic origin - is yet an insufficiently known and explored field in children and adolescents by international clinical works. This research aims to characterize somatic, psychological, psychopathological and environmental (particularly attachment styles and family functioning) processes trough an observational study with three pain management centers. The study concerns children and adolescents from 7 to 17 years old, suffering of medically unexplained chronic pain and their parents who are referred to a pain center. It is composed of a somatic, psychological and family functioning assessment on the one hand and psychopathological and attachment evaluation on the other hand.

Detailed description

Participation in the study involves an additional visit to 1 day pain center to answer questionnaires about anxiety, family environment, depression and psychological testing

Conditions

• Pain, Chronic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	questionnaires and psychological testing	Child/adolescent and parents interview and consultation with both a physician and a psychologist for a somatic and pain indicators assessment within an usual setting. Then, parents and child or adolescent are interviewed separately using different psychological instruments with only a psychologist: * Psychological (cognitive and projective evaluation) : Intellectual Quotient, mental flexibility, projective evaluation with Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test, parents and children attachment questionnaires * Psychopathological: anxiety and depression questionnaires, psychiatric disorders evaluation, quality of life, life events questionnaires, family functioning interview.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-22
• Primary completion: 2018-01-10
• Completion: 2018-01-10
• First posted: 2015-09-11
• Last updated: 2021-09-16

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: France