ClinicalTrials.Veeva

Menu

Pain Neuroscience Education for Depression (PNEdepress)

S

St. Ambrose University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Low-back Pain
Depression

Treatments

Other: PNE edcuation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04023435
1819307

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will look at the effects of Pain Neuroscience Education on a Depression outcome tool in patients with chronic low back pain.

Full description

Pain and depression have been shown to be interrelated, especially chronic pain: people in chronic pain develop depression and people with depression develop chronic pain. In light of this coexistence it is not surprising that current best-evidence for depression and chronic pain shows significant overlap which includes primarily some type of cognitive intervention, aerobic exercise, and skilled delivery of medication including selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors and/or membrane stabilizers. Current best-evidence regarding musculoskeletal pain provides strong support for Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) to positively influence pain ratings, dysfunction, and limitations in movement, pain knowledge and healthcare utilization. Additionally, PNE has shown to powerfully influence psychosocial issues that powerfully influence pain and depression: fear-avoidance and pain catastrophization. Evidence is lacking in whether PNE could also influence depression ratings. The purpose of this study is to examine the immediate effect of PNE on pain, function, and depressive symptoms (using the Patient Health Questionnaire - PHQ-9) in patients attending PT for chronic low back pain (LBP).

This will be a pre- and post-intervention convenience sample of consecutive patients with chronic LBP (pain > 6 months) meeting the inclusion criteria, attending outpatient PT. On initial examination, intake data and information will be collected prior to PNE and immediately following PNE.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 90 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • adults over the age of 18
  • presenting at PT with a primary complaint of LBP
  • LBP being present for 6 months or more
  • fluent in English
  • willing to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

  • are under age 18 (minor)
  • had undergone lumbar surgery
  • cannot read or understand the English language
  • presents with any cognitive deficits rendering them unsuitable for PNE (i.e., stroke, traumatic brain injury, etc.)
  • decline to participate
  • present with a medical etiology (red flag) associated with their LBP.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

30 participants in 1 patient group

PNE education
Experimental group
Description:
All subjects will be tested before and after receiving PNE education
Treatment:
Other: PNE edcuation

Trial contacts and locations

1

Loading...

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

Clinical trials

Find clinical trialsTrials by location
© Copyright 2024 Veeva Systems