Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT06074575
Do Emotions Affect Mechanical Pain Thresholds?
The Effect of Positive and Negative Emotions on Mechanical Pain Thresholds: a Randomized Controlled Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 152 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Linnaeus University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The purpose of this study is to investigate if different emotional states could influence mechanical pain thresholds.
Detailed description
Participants will be randomized into 4 different groups watching different short video-clips (2.20 min). The negative emotions group will watch an uncomfortable short video containing violence and blood, the positive emotions group will watch a video containing a stand-up comedy show, the neutral emotions group will watch a video with Swedish nature, and the control group will just wait for 2.20 min, without any instructions about what to think about. Pressure pain thresholds will be measured with an algometer before and after the video-clip interventions.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Emotion induction | The participants will receive different emotion inductions through short video clips. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2023-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2024-05-10
- Completion
- 2024-05-22
- First posted
- 2023-10-10
- Last updated
- 2025-02-14
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Sweden
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06074575. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.