NCT06833047

Does Boredom Affect Mechanical Pain Thresholds

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Linnaeus University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate if the feeling of boredom could influence mechanical pain thresholds.

Detailed description

Participants will be randomized into 3 different groups watching different short video-clips (2.30 min). The boredom group will watch a boring video about ploughing, the distraction control group will watch a positively valenced video, the control group will just wait for 2.30 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

• Pain Threshold
• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Emotional intervention	Participants will receive different emotional interventions such as boredom, positive valence, mind-wandering.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-03-25
• Primary completion: 2025-04-25
• Completion: 2025-04-25
• First posted: 2025-02-18
• Last updated: 2025-04-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden