Does Boredom Affect Mechanical Pain Thresholds (BEAMPT)

Linnaeus University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy; Pain Threshold

Treatments: Behavioral: Emotional intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06833047

Dnr 2024-07849-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• No pain at the test session
• Swedish fluency.

Exclusion criteria

• Pain anywhere in the body during the test session
• known neurological disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 3 patient groups

Boredom

Experimental group

Description:

The participant will watch a short video with boring content.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotional intervention

Distraction control

Experimental group

Description:

The participant will watch a short video with positively valenced content.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotional intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The participant will wait for 2.30 minutes without any instructions of what to think about.