COMPLETED

Heartache and Backache- An Online Intervention Addressing Emotional and Physical Pain

Study Overview

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Description

This study is designed to determine if a brief educational program and a written emotional disclosure task can improve chronic back/neck pain-related outcomes and change pain beliefs and other processes in individuals with chronic back pain. Individuals will be randomly assigned to an experimental condition (pain and affect neuroscience education) or a control condition (general health activities questionnaire), and then subsequently randomized to a second experimental condition (written emotional disclosure) or a control condition (writing about healthy habits). Analyses will examine the main and interactive effects of the pain and affect neuroscience education and written emotional disclosure on improved pain-related outcomes at 1-month follow-up. Participants in both the experimental conditions are expected to show more improvement on pain severity, pain interference, psychological distress and psychological attitudes toward pain at follow-up, relative to participants in the control groups.

Official Title

Randomized Clinical Trial of Pain Psychology/Neuroscience and Written Disclosure for Chronic Pain

Quick Facts

Study Start:2022-12-15
Study Completion:2024-12-30
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:COMPLETED

Study ID

NCT05513274

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * English speaking
  2. * Chronic musculoskeletal back or neck pain for greater than 1 year as primary symptom complaint
  3. * Participants living in western countries USA, UK and Australia
  4. * Have access to a computer or smartphone
  1. * Presence of serious disease or impairment (cancer, systemic infection, serious vision impairment)
  2. * Clear evidence of significant structural damage likely causing their pain (eg, vertebral compression fracture);
  3. * Being considered for interventional spine procedures (eg, steroidal injections) or surgery;
  4. * Leg or arm pain more severe than back or neck pain
  5. * Rheumatoid arthritis
  6. * Fibromyalgia
  7. * Active psychosis

Contacts and Locations

Principal Investigator

Mark Lumley, PhD
STUDY_DIRECTOR
Wayne State University

Study Locations (Sites)

The New School for Social Research Department of Psychology
New York, New York, 48202
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: Wayne State University

  • Mark Lumley, PhD, STUDY_DIRECTOR, Wayne State University

Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2022-12-15
Study Completion Date2024-12-30

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2022-12-15
Study Completion Date2024-12-30

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Chronic Pain (Back / Neck)