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Help Overcoming Pain Early - an Adolescent-centered School Health Prevention Program (HOPE)

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Göteborg University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Treatments

Behavioral: HOPE-model

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02944786
205205215

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall aim of the project is to evaluate the Help Overcoming Pain Early model (which includes patient education, person-centered health dialogues and pain/stress management), which is an adolescent-centered school health prevention program when adolescents have chronic pain. This is an intervention that has the hypothesis to support students to manage their chronic pain. The primary outcome is self-efficacy. Secondary outcomes are self-rated health, quality of sleep, pain intensity and school attendance. The project aims to evaluate the intervention through qualitative and quantitative data collection by students and school nurses. The project has a hybrid design, which means that outcomes of the intervention and the evaluation of the implementation are taking place in the same data collection. The results of this project can be of great importance in the early detection of students with chronic pain and promote their confidence in their own ability to manage their symptoms.

Full description

School nurses who perform the person-centered health dialogues with the students will have an education, which includes a various of lectures about person-centered health dialogues, stress/pain management and school nurses (over-)generalizations of gender. The project has a hybrid design, which means that outcomes of the intervention and the evaluation of the implementation are taking place in the same data collection.

All students at the participating schools who fulfill the criteria of chronic pain that is mediated by stress, will be invited to participate in the intervention. The participants will be randomized to either group A or group B.

Participants will once report frequency, duration and intensity of pain and they also fill in the questionnaire Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children.

In the first period of data collection, the group A will get four sessions of person-centered health dialogues. The sessions also include pain/stress management and education about stress and pain (the HOPE model that is an adolescent-centered school health prevention program when adolescents have chronic pain). Group B will be a control group.

All participating school nurses and students will be interviewed about their experiences of the intervention.

In the second period of data collection it will be the other way around, i.e., group B will will get four sessions of person-centered health dialogues. The sessions also include pain/stress management and education about stress and pain (the HOPE model that is an adolescent-centered school health prevention program when adolescents have chronic pain). Group A will be the control group.

All participating school nurses and students will once again be interviewed about their experiences of the intervention.

The primary outcome in the intervention is self-efficacy and this outcome will be measured before and after the intervention in both group A and group B. Secondary outcomes are self-rated health, quality of sleep, pain intensity, and school attendance and these outcomes will also be measured before and after the intervention in both group A and group B.

Enrollment

98 patients

Sex

All

Ages

13 to 19 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • All students who fulfill the criteria of chronic pain that is mediated by stress

Exclusion criteria

  • Students who cannot speak Swedish or English

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

98 participants in 2 patient groups

HOPE-model
Experimental group
Description:
Four person-centred health dialogue sessions that include pain/stress management and education about stress and pain.
Treatment:
Behavioral: HOPE-model
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
Standard care

Trial contacts and locations

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