2B Active: Outpatient Rehabilitation for Adolescents With Chronic Pain

Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Multimodal Rehabilitation Program; Behavioral: Care as Usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02181725

1202-068 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

NL47323.068.13/METC13-3-062

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a multimodal rehabilitation program effectively reduces functional disability in adolescents with chronic musculoskeletal pain, compared to care as usual.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 21 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 12-21 years at the start of the study
• Complaints of chronic non-specific musculoskeletal pain of a duration > 3 months
• Considerable activity limitations
• Fear of movement
• Indication for outpatient multidisciplinary rehabilitation treatment
• Adequate Dutch literacy to complete the assessments (which mainly comprise questionnaires)

Exclusion criteria

• Any suspicion of a medical (orthopaedic, rheumatic or neurological) disease, that can explain the current pain complaints
• Any suspicion of an (underlying) psychiatric disease, for which psychiatric treatment is better suited, according to the expert opinion of the consultant in rehabilitation medicine.
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Multimodal Rehabilitation Program

Experimental group

Description:

Multimodal Rehabilitation Program, consisting of a Graded Exposure Module (GE), a Combination Module (HMGE) and a Parent Module (PM)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Multimodal Rehabilitation Program

Care as Usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Care as usual is the care currently provided to adolescents with musculoskeletal chronic pain and is based on the principles of Graded Activity.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Care as Usual