Impact of Social Support and Coping Strategies on Post-Surgical Pain (POPQUEST)

Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post-Surgical Pain, Chronic; Coping Behavior; Social Support

Treatments: Other: Questionnaires

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05009316

POPQUEST

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of social support and pain coping strategies in the development and evolution of post-surgical pain.

Full description

This is a longitudinal study. After giving their informed consent, patients will answer online questionnaires assessing pain and different psychosocial variables at these time points: before surgery, one to three days after surgery, and one, three, and six months after surgery.

The psychosocial variables evaluated are the following ones :

• Depression,
• Anxiety,
• Stress,
• Pain Coping Strategies,
• Social Support,
• Couple Support.

Enrollment: 368 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged over 18 years of age.
• Capacity to understand and voluntarily sign an informed consent form in French.

Exclusion criteria

• Insufficient French language skills.
• History of psychotic disease.
• History of neurodegenerative pathology.
• History of neurological disease (e.g. stroke)
• Pre-existing pain condition related to the reason for surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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368 participants in 1 patient group

Questionnaires

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will answer online surveys containing different questionnaires that will evaluate psychosocial variables as well as pain variables.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires