Feasibility and Acceptability Study of ACUAWARE

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Other: Acupuncture therapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06145997

00139124

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to gather preliminary feasibility and acceptability data to justify a subsequent trial that would fill a gap in knowledge regarding acupuncture therapy (AT) effects on interoceptive awareness (IA) among those with chronic pain.

Full description

This study aims to gather preliminary feasibility and acceptability data to justify a subsequent trial that would fill a gap in knowledge regarding acupuncture's effects on interoceptive awareness among individuals with chronic pain. Our primary hypotheses are that (1) Feasibility: it is feasible for us to enroll and retain 70% of the patients and it is feasible to collect data from at least 70% of participants at 3-months follow-up, and (2) Acceptability: it is acceptable for 70% of licensed acupuncturists to use Acu-Track Registry; it is acceptable for 70% of patients to complete questionnaires emailed to them via Acu-Track Registry.

The investigators propose to evaluate these hypotheses by conducting a prospective, pragmatic single-arm feasibility and acceptability study among individuals with chronic pain of any etiology or location, except if due to cancer. Chronic pain is defined as pain that persists or recurs for more than 3 months.

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients:

• Age 18 or older;
• experiencing chronic pain,
• complaint of 3+ months,
• score of 5 or greater on a 1-10 scale;
• able to provide informed consent
• willing to sign an approved consent form that conforms to federal and institutional guidelines,
• English speaking and writing.

Exclusion criteria

Prior or current diagnosis of:

• cancer,
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS),
• any Dementia,
• Parkinson's Disease,
• Autism Spectrum Disorder,
• Pregnancy,
• Fibromyalgia,
• Eating Disorder,
• Down's Syndrome
• Schizophrenia

Trial design

1 participants in 1 patient group

Persons with chronic pain

Description:

Standard acupuncture care will be provided to persons (n=50) with chronic pain. Standard care is defined as the care a participant was already receiving and that care will not be interrupted in any way for any study participant.

Treatment:

Other: Acupuncture therapy