Evaluating a Chronic Pain Treatment Program

Wayne State University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Mind-body emotional awareness program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00861302

WSU094808B3E

Details and patient eligibility

About

This interventional study seeks to evaluate the overall outcomes of a novel, emotional awareness intervention for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain and determine which patients benefit the most from this intervention. The investigators also are evaluating the effects of brief emotional communication technique embedded in the pre-treatment assessment.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain, not accounted for by disease or tissue pathology, who are seeking or referred for this psychological treatment program

Exclusion criteria

• Autoimmune diseases
• Cancer pain
• Illiterate
• Cognitively impaired
• Too medically ill

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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72 participants in 1 patient group

Treatment group

Experimental group

Description:

This is the only group in the study. It consists of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain who are receiving the treatment program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mind-body emotional awareness program