Smartphone Delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adolescents With Longstanding Pain

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03472248

2017/1676-31/2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Intervention study with uncontrolled design investigating the effects of smartphone delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for longstanding pain in adolescents. Primary outcome is pain interference. Internet-based parental support will be offered to the adolescents' caregivers.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• pain duration of ≥ 3 months;
• the pain condition has been examined by a medical doctor
• able to communicate in Swedish
• access to a smartphone and internet connection on a daily basis
• stable medication use since 2 months time, with no planned changes

Exclusion criteria

• previous ACT or CBT treatment during the past 6 months
• severe psychiatric co-morbidity (e.g. psychosis or high risk of suicide) as assessed by the psychologist in a semi-structured interview

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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28 participants in 1 patient group

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Eight weeks of smartphone delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the adolescent and eight weeks of internet delivered parental support to one or two parents of the adolescent.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy