NCT06836193

Do Emotions Affect Mechanical Pain Thresholds in Individuals with Chronic Pain?

Do Emotions and Pain Combined Affect Mechanical Pain Thresholds and Other Pain-related Variables in Individuals with Chronic Pain

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 152 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Linnaeus University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate if different emotional states could influence mechanical pain thresholds in individuals with chronic pain.

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 about how to paint a house, 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-clips.

Conditions

• PRESSURE PAIN THRESHOLD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Emotional intervention	Negative emotional intervention
OTHER	Emotional intervention	Positive emotional intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-01
• Primary completion: 2027-06-01
• Completion: 2027-12-31
• First posted: 2025-02-20
• Last updated: 2025-02-20