Nurse Specialist Intervention Promoting Altered Coping and Treatment for Chronic Pain (NURSIPACT)

Universiteit Antwerpen

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: The consultation with a pain specialist nurse

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06105281

NURSIPACT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate of the implementation of an autonomous consultation with a nurse pain specialist for chronic pain patients has an influence on the behaviour towards the chronic pain. The trail will be done with patients that has planned an infiltration in a pain centre. Furthermore the pain intensity and patent satisfaction will be investigated as second outcomes.

During the consultation there will be explained what the patient can expect from the treatment in the pain clinic. What the patient expect from the infiltration will also be surveyed, so that it can be adjusted if necessary. In the end of the consultation there will be a brief explanation of chronic pain and the physiology as well als the different factors that have an influence on it.

This study is a monocentric randomised controlled trail of 172 participants, with an equal allocation (1:1). To collect the data there will be three different questionnaires for both groups. The first is a baseline measurement. The second will take place three weeks after the infiltration and the third ten weeks after the infiltration. This is in order to see if there is an evolution in the outcomes during time.

Enrollment: 172 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients that have an appointment for a treatment
• Patients with chronic pain, so 3 months or more and of functional dysfunction because of the pain.
• Patients that are receiving a spinal treatment form the cervical, thoracic or lumbar spine.
• The patient has to understand the Dutch language.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a neurostimulator, an intrathecal medication pump or patients that already has an appointment at the consultation in the pain clinic. They have an doctor- patient relationship and that can cause bias.
• People who are legally incapable (persons younger then 18 years, persons with dementia, other cognitive diseases.
• People with facial pain. Here is the necessity of quick treatments. Or they already take place in other studies.
• People who are interned or detained. There is no possibility of follow-up.
• Palliative, oncologic or in hospital patients
• Patients who need a emergency treatment, because it is mostly acute or sub acute pain.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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172 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants that only get the standard care in the pain clinic.

The consultation with a pain specialist nurse

Experimental group

Description:

When the participant receives a consultation with the pain specialist nurse ,there will be assessed if the patient knows what the procedure involves and what they can expect of it. To meet de expectations of the patient the nurse will explain the procedure and what they can expect. Further there will be an short education about what pain is and the physiology of chronic pain. Because chronic pain has a lot of influencing factors the nurse will explain the main factors.

Treatment:

Behavioral: The consultation with a pain specialist nurse