NCT03391661

University of Michigan / Wayne State Chronic Pain Study

Openness to Cognitive Approach of Nonspecific Chronic Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wayne State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is designed to determine if a brief educational program can alter the attitudes and knowledge of individuals with chronic back pain, which is likely to be non-structural in nature. Individuals will be randomly assigned to an experimental condition (performs written educational and emotional awareness exercises) or a control condition (completes a general health activities questionnaire). Comparisons will be made to assess the degree of centralized pain features and functional improvements at 1-month follow-up. A 10-month follow-up as a secondary endpoint is also planned.

Conditions

• Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pain neuroscience education patient exercise	Patients complete a 15 to 20-minute on-line exercise that inquires about 5 domains: the degree of central sensitization symptoms, catastrophizing and kinesiophobia, personality factors, stressors that triggered or exacerbated the pain, and adverse childhood experiences.
BEHAVIORAL	Health behavior control intervention	Patients engage in a 15 to 20-minute on-line exercise examining their health behaviors in five domains: exercise, sleep, diet, hygiene, and social connections.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-12-10
• Primary completion: 2018-05-17
• Completion: 2019-02-28
• First posted: 2018-01-05
• Last updated: 2019-07-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States