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patients for Chronic Pain

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Research Sponsored by University of Missouri-Columbia
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up baseline
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Study Summary

Our long-term goal is to improve pain communication for patients' health. For this project, we seek information on patients' and health care nurses' (1) mental effort when choosing or understanding, respectively, pain intensity ratings, and (2) confidence in the accuracy of pain intensity rating patterns. This information will clarify the importance of mental effort from pain ratings and the probability of pain intensity rating patterns. Our primary aim will compare patients' and nurses' perceptions of the mental effort of choosing (Aim 2a) and understanding (Aim 2b) pain intensity ratings. We hypothesize that patients will rate mental effort higher than nurses for choosing ratings and lower than nurses for understanding ratings. The results will inform future efforts to improve pain communication between patients and nurses.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~baseline
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and baseline for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
importance of decreasing mental effort
mental effort
Secondary outcome measures
confidence in the accuracy of fictional pain intensity ratings

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: patientsExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Our inclusion criteria for the patients are the following: (1) 18 years old or older; (2) currently being treated by a health care provider for a painful musculoskeletal condition; (3) has felt a usual musculoskeletal pain intensity rating of "2" or higher on a "0" to "10" scale over the last 24 hours; (4) has felt extreme pain that completely disappeared; (5) has felt musculoskeletal pain on most days of the last 3 months; (6) chronic musculoskeletal pain has increased and decreased during the last 3 months; and (6) has felt musculoskeletal pain in more than one location on most days of the last 3 months. Our exclusion criterion for the patients is ever employed as a licensed health care provider.
Group II: nursesExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Our inclusion criteria for the nurses are the following: (1) 18 years old or older; (2) currently employed as a licensed nurse; and (3) current employment duties include routinely assessing the musculoskeletal pain of cognitively intact, adult outpatients. Our exclusion criteria for the nurses are the following: (1) currently managing a painful musculoskeletal condition; and (2) has ever felt musculoskeletal pain on most days for 3 months or longer.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of Missouri-ColumbiaLead Sponsor
361 Previous Clinical Trials
627,794 Total Patients Enrolled
5 Trials studying Chronic Pain
354 Patients Enrolled for Chronic Pain

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Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Pain Rating Challenges and Patterns
Erin Dannecker 2023. "Pain Rating Challenges and Patterns". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT06115278.
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