Dropout Factors in Chronic Pain Management

University of Liege

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-hypnosis/self-care group; Behavioral: Psycho-education; Behavioral: Music/self-care; Behavioral: Self-care; Behavioral: Self-hypnosis/self-care motivation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04218227

2015/85-C

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic pain concernes one in four adults in Belgium. Because of the psychological and social repercussions, a biopsychosocial approach is necessary in order to improve the quality of life chronic pain patients. Non-pharmacological techniques such as hypnosis, self-care learning, music-therapy and psycho-education are gaining more and more interest in the scientific field. However, a major problem in clinical research is patient dropout. To our knowledge, no study has investigated dropout rates in hypnosis clinical research. The aim of this study is, therefore, to better understand the predictors of dropout in several non-pharmacological treatments in chronic pain management.

Enrollment: 228 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Major
• Fluency in French
• Chronic pain diagnosis

Exclusion criteria

• Neurologic disorder
• Psychiatric disorder
• Drug addiction
• Alcoholism

Trial design

228 participants in 5 patient groups

Self-hypnosis/self-care group

Description:

It is a 7-months 2 hours-session (1 session per month) of self-hypnosis/self-care learning. Participants are given strategies to learn self-care (knowing their needs, self-respect, communication etc.), each strategy is discussed for participant to understand them and thus apply them correctly in daily life. An hypnosis exercice is conducted at the end of each session. A CD with the audiotaped hypnosis exercice is given to each patient so that they can practice also every day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-hypnosis/self-care group

Music/self-care

Description:

It is a 7-months 2 hours-session (1 session per month) of music/self-care learning. Participants are given strategies to learn self-care (knowing their needs, self-respect, communication etc.), each strategy is discussed for participant to understand them and thus apply them correctly in daily life. At the end of each session, patients are invited to listen to a relaxing melody of 15 minutes. This melody was composed by a professional musico-therapist. A CD with the audiotaped melody is given to each patient so that they can practice also every day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Music/self-care

Self-care

Description:

It is a 7-months 2 hours-session (1 session per month) of music/self-care learning. Participants are given strategies to learn self-care (knowing their needs, self-respect, communication etc.), each strategy is discussed for participant to understand them and thus apply them correctly in daily life.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-care

Psycho-education

Description:

It is a 7-months 2 hours-session (1 session per month) of psycho-education training. Psycho-education aims to empower and encourage the patient to become an actor in his therapeutic management, while offering a comprehensive model of the mechanisms of pain, the benefits of pharmacological treatments at a physical and psychological level as well as ways to change the way one lives every day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psycho-education

Self-hypnosis/self-care motivation

Description:

It is a 7-months 2 hours-session (1 session per month) of self-hypnosis/self-care learning. Participants are given strategies to learn self-care (knowing their needs, self-respect, communication etc.), each strategy is discussed for participant to understand them and thus apply them correctly in daily life. An hypnosis exercice is conducted at the end of each session. A CD with the audiotaped hypnosis exercice is given to each patient so that they can practice also every day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-hypnosis/self-care motivation