NCT04261114

Exploring the Link Between Pain and Distress in Adolescent Patients with Chronic Pain

Exploring the Relationship Between Physical Pain and Emotional Distress in Adolescents with Chronic Pain - a Three-step Observational Follow-up Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 77 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Oxford · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary aim is to explore what it is about the experience of chronic pain that may cause emotional distress in some young people but not in others, and how particular individual characteristics, as well as family factors may contribute to young persons' pain experiences and their emotional responses to pain.

Detailed description

This is a three-part observational follow-up study: Part one will explore (a) whether the current sample reports emotional distress, including feelings of burdensomeness, hopelessness and thoughts and acts of self-harm, and if young people perceive there to be a link between pain and any such feelings of distress, and (b) which aspects of the pain experience, if any, are associated with such distress, using qualitative and quantitative data. Part two will explore potential individual-level and family-level risk and resilience factors underpinning the hypothesised relationship between aspects of the pain experience and burdensomeness, hopelessness and thoughts and acts of self-harm, using adolescent and parental baseline data. In part three, adolescent participants will be invited to complete daily diaries on their pain experience, three times per day over 7 days, in order to investigate which aspects of the pain experience are associated with burdensomeness and hopelessness at follow-up. This study has the potential to improve the care of young people with chronic pain, and in particular the emotional support that young people receive.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-13
• Primary completion: 2023-06-12
• Completion: 2024-03-28
• First posted: 2020-02-07
• Last updated: 2024-09-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom