Effect of Guided Imagery on Patients With Chronic Pain Related to Spinal Cord Injury

NCT ID: NCT00678548

Last Updated: 2015-04-08

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

WITHDRAWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-10-31

Study Completion Date

2009-03-31

Brief Summary

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Chronic pain after spinal cord injury in or below the level of injury is a common problem and can be severe.

The purpose of our study is to investigate the effect of pleasant guided imagery on spinal cord injured patients with chronic pain in or below the level of injury.

Detailed Description

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The study is a controlled simple blind randomized prospective study. Subjects who live in Trøndelag ( Norway) and who have a traumatic or non traumatic spinal cord injury with chronic pain in or below the level of injury will be included in the study.

Assessments: Pain will be measured with NRS(numeric pain rating scale) and BPIQ (Brief pain intervention questionnaire), anxiety and depression with BDI and BAI (Beck's depression and anxiety inventory) and quality of live with SF36 health survey.

The subjects will be randomized in a treatment and control group. One group will use daily for four weeks a CD with a pleasant guided imagery, the other group will write a short pain diary.

The NRS will be registered daily and the other assessments before and after the interventions.

Conditions

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Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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guided imagery

CD

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Pleasant guided imagery

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

CD with pleasant guided imagery

pain diary

Pain diary

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Pain diary

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Filling out a pain diary

Interventions

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Pleasant guided imagery

CD with pleasant guided imagery

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Pain diary

Filling out a pain diary

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Traumatic and non traumatic SCI (spinal cord injury) persons in Trøndelag (Norway)

Exclusion Criteria

* Not sufficient knowledge of the Norwegian language, cancer, serious cognitive impairment, abuse or dependence of alcohol, narcotics or analgesics and dissociative disorder
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Gunnar Leivseth, Professor MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Other Identifiers

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4.2007.1943

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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