Understanding Chronic Pain in NHS Grampian

University of Aberdeen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Other: No Intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07611799

RG-14309-10

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators will explore healthcare professionals and patients' experience in chronic pain management within primary care. Investigators will use this information to develop a decision aid tool tool which patients with chronic pain could use to help them make an informed decision during a consultation with their healthcare professionals.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• above 18 years old,
• suffering from non-malignant chronic pain (defined as pain lasting for more than three months) and,
• being managed entirely within a primary care setting.

Exclusion criteria

• are not fluent in the English language,
• have concomitant severe mental health problems or terminal illness,
• have a known alcohol or drug addiction, and
• suffer from pain caused by cancer or other malignancy.