Pain Management Groups in Occupational Health Settings

Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Treatments

Behavioral: Pain management group

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02967705

115395

Details and patient eligibility

About

This cluster randomized waiting-list controlled study will evaluate the effectiveness of pain management group activity organized by the OH on pain intensity and associated disability, and co-occurrence of mental or sleep problem in patients with chronic pain.

Full description

Pain is very prevalent among the working population causing a considerable amount of work disability days. Pain management group therapy has shown to have a significant effect on chronic pain. However, little is known of the effect of such therapy on work disability. There are especially very few studies prescribing the effectiveness of pain management groups provided by the occupational health service.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

chronic pain + increased risk of work disability (based on a screening survey)

Exclusion criteria

a malignant disease such as cancer, or severe mental illness such as depression causing significant functional disability.
participating in another pain group elsewhere.
in the middle of a major life crises such as divorce.