Central Post-Stroke Pain - a Prospective Study

Danish Pain Research Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00957645

20060116

Details and patient eligibility

About

Part 1: The purpose of the first part of the study is to investigate the prevalence of pain at stroke onset and 3 and 6 months after stroke in a consecutive cohort of stroke patients admitted to a stroke unit.

Part 2: The purpose of the second part of the study is to identify patients who develop central post-stroke pain within the first 6 months following stroke and to try to identify early prognostic factors for the development of pain.

Full description

Part 1:

• Within 3 days of admission: medical history, pain history, sensory examination
• Telephone follow-up at 3 and 6 months post-stroke: pain history

Part 2:

• Medical history, Pain history, Sensory examination

Enrollment: 275 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Recent cerebrovascular stroke

Exclusion criteria

• Severe dementia, aphasia or psychosis
• Patients who cannot cooperate at time of inclusion
• Patients who do not understand Danish