Manage My Pain at Chronic Pain Clinics

University Health Network, Toronto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Other: Manage My Pain (MMP) digital pain app group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT04762329

17-6201

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall objective of this Early Adoption project is to gather evidence for how Managing My Pain Program (MMP), a novel digital pain management application can enable better care at home for chronic pain sufferers in the province of Ontario, Canada across 4 sites in urban, community, and rural settings

Full description

Chronic pain imposes a large burden on individuals and society. A patient-centric digital chronic pain management application, Managing My Pain Program (MMP) that incorporates validated questionnaires can be used to enhance communication between providers and patients and promote self-management to evaluate the extent of patient engagement with the app when used in clinical settings.

The main objectives for this project is to evaluate the engagement in patients using MMP, and to assess improvements in clinical outcomes directly relevant for pain management, as measured by clinically-validated tools.

Enrollment: 246 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• New patients with chronic pain conditions referred to participating sites with pain programs to adopt the MMP tool into clinical practice.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients declining to consent for the study
• Patients withdrawing from the study at a later time after consenting

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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246 participants in 2 patient groups

Patient group using Manage My Pain (MMP) digital application for pain data

Experimental group

Description:

Participants completed pain related questionnaires on the following pain related outcomes - anxiety, depression, catastrophizing, disability, patient impression of change, and daily opioid consumption at baseline on initial visit and as a part of the first follow-up clinical visits, on the Manage My Pain (MMP) digital application

Treatment:

Other: Manage My Pain (MMP) digital pain app group

Patient group using paper format for pain data

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants completed pain related questionnaires on the following pain related outcomes - anxiety, depression, catastrophizing, disability, patient impression of change, and daily opioid consumption at baseline on initial visit and as a part of the first follow-up clinical visits on paper format or phone interviews.