NCT07491549

The Effect of Pain Education Group Therapy and Its Impact on Chronic Pain, Kinesiophobia, and Physical Activity

Physical Activity in Patients With Chronic Pain, Its Adherence to WHO Physical Activity Recommendations, and Its Associations With Kinesiophobia, Central Sensitization, Depression, and Pain Intensity

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Tartu · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if pain knowledge group intervention among chronic pain patients would influence their level of physical activity, pain intensity, depression, kinesiophobia and central sensitization. The main question it aims to answer is: Primary hypothesis: pain education will decrease participants' depression and pain intensity and increase their physical activity. There is no comparison group. Participants will participate in a 6-week pain knowledge intervention where they will be learning about sleep, stress models, physical activity benefits, pain neurobiology, mindfulness, pain medication.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	pain education	In one group there will be 8-12 participants who will meet once a week during 6 -weeks time. The educational sessions will be 2-hours long including sometimes some exercises and also reflection of the participants.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-04-01
• Primary completion: 2030-05-31
• Completion: 2030-12-30
• First posted: 2026-03-24
• Last updated: 2026-03-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Estonia