Nurse-led Pain Education Clinical Trial in Chronic Pain Patients

Universiteit Antwerpen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Chronic

Treatments: Behavioral: Nurse-led care by a nurse specialist in pain

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05482152

S65953

Details and patient eligibility

About

Chronic pain is a multidimensional problem that consequently requires interventions on multiple levels. Pain education by physicians is one of the interventions that shows promising results in patient reported outcomes. It is however unclear if nurse-led chronic pain education could be equally effective on pain attitude and behavior in chronic pain patients. The aim of this clinical trial is to investigate the effects of a nurse-led consultation with chronic pain patients on pain attitude and patient satisfaction compared with regular care without nurse specialist intervention.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years old
• dutch speaking
• first time consultation

Exclusion criteria

• Palliative care patients
• Patients with dementia diagnosis
• Urgent referral to the pain clinic by other physicians

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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39 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard physician led care

No Intervention group

Description:

Consultation by physician (pain specialist)

Nurse-led care

Experimental group

Description:

Preclinical nurse-led consultation and standard care by physician (pain specialist)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nurse-led care by a nurse specialist in pain