The Effect of Pain Education Group Therapy and Its Impact on Chronic Pain, Kinesiophobia, and Physical Activity

University of Tartu

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: pain education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07491549

ChronicPain

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if pain knowledge group intervention among chronic pain patients would influence their level of physical activity, pain intensity, depression, kinesiophobia and central sensitization. The main question it aims to answer is:

Primary hypothesis: pain education will decrease participants' depression and pain intensity and increase their physical activity.

There is no comparison group.

Participants will participate in a 6-week pain knowledge intervention where they will be learning about sleep, stress models, physical activity benefits, pain neurobiology, mindfulness, pain medication.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pain lasting longer than 3 months,
• Consequences resulting from long-term pain (such as decreased physical activity, sleep disturbances, fatigue, low mood, etc.)

Exclusion criteria

• Surgery that occurred less than 3 months prior
• Fracture or limb trauma that occurred less than 3 months prior

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Pain education intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The participants will receive a 6-week pain education in groups. In addition, they are asked to wear an Actigraph to measure their actual physical activity. The topics in the pain education group are as follows: 1. The pain management team - the patient as the supportive leader of the team 2. Contemporary understanding of the biopsychosocial nature of pain 3. Stress and its impact on pain 4. Use of medications in the treatment of chronic pain 5. Physical activity and its impact on pain 6. Negative thoughts and their impact on pain 7. Use of relaxation and mindfulness techniques in pain management 8. Sleep and sleep hygiene 9. Setbacks and coping with them

Treatment:

Behavioral: pain education