NCT03699553

Lessons in Affect Regulation to Keep Stress and Pain UndeR Control (LARKSPUR R34)

Positive Affect Regulation as Adjuvant to Integrative Therapies for Chronic Pain: Development of the LARKSPUR Clinic-Based Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic pain affects millions of Americans but integrative as well as conventional treatments fall short in terms of alleviating this pain. The investigators are testing a tailored online positive affect skills intervention through a high-quality, randomized controlled trial for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain. The proposed work holds promise as an effective, low cost, easily disseminated intervention to help people cope with chronic pain, decrease depression and distress that pose barriers to optimal adherence, and potentially boost the efficacy of integrative as well as conventional pain treatments.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Musculoskeletal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	LARKSPUR; Online Positive Emotions Skills for Individuals with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain	8 positive emotion skills taught over 5-6 weeks to help individuals cope with chronic pain and stress.
BEHAVIORAL	Emotion Reporting Control Group	Attention matched control condition, participants will report their daily emotions over 5-6 weeks online.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-15
• Primary completion: 2022-12-31
• Completion: 2022-12-31
• First posted: 2018-10-09
• Last updated: 2023-01-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States