Experience of Chronic (Non-malignant) Musculoskeletal Pain of French Adolescent and Young Adult: a Qualitative Research With Their Physicians and Non-medical Practitioners

NCT ID: NCT03171792

Last Updated: 2025-11-20

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

Get a concise snapshot of the trial, including recruitment status, study phase, enrollment targets, and key timeline milestones.

Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

25 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-09-21

Study Completion Date

2018-01-30

Brief Summary

Review the sponsor-provided synopsis that highlights what the study is about and why it is being conducted.

The purpose of this study is to explore the perspectives of health professionals on chronic (non-malignant) musculoskeletal pain in adolescence and young adulthood. The prevalence of this pain symptom is rising for ten years, and most of the time the diagnosis is complex. Health professionals have to differentiate between the continuing activity of a somatic problem, some painful sequelae, a low threshold for the perception of pain, and psychological symptoms with somatic expression. Diagnosis in this case takes time, and is a matter of trained specialists. No protocol exists to assess the sub-clinical symptoms which will be used to help doing this complex task.

This qualitative study will elicit the perspectives of trained specialists on this diagnosis: how do they deal with these patients? What signs and symptoms helps them? The results will present their clinical experiences. The overall goal is to construct the first chronic musculoskeletal pain multidimensional scale that will help the practitioners with this complex diagnosis.

Detailed Description

Dive into the extended narrative that explains the scientific background, objectives, and procedures in greater depth.

Recent research suggests that musculoskeletal pain may be the most common complaint for which children are referred to a pediatric rheumatologist and is present in approximately 50% of all new patients. A small percentage of these patients will be diagnosed with a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), which is marked by clinically significant pain. A larger percentage will be diagnosed with a musculoskeletal pain syndrome, that approximately 25% of them are chronic and defined as \> = 3 months. The chronic pain symptom is a subjective one that professionals have to precise its outlines in term of semiology, nature and efficacity of past treatments, medical and family backgrounds. The professional then will have to pinpoint a diagnosis, while assessing the consequences of the pain and treating it.

Most of the time this task is a complex one and professionals have to build their diagnostic on a body of clinical, paraclinical and more social, familial and psychological evidences. No clear protocol exists to help the professionals with differentiating the continuing activity of a somatic problem, some painful sequelae, a low threshold for the perception of pain, and psychological symptoms with somatic expression. This diagnostic process is lying on sub-clinical symptoms that investigators have to elicit in order to help professionals to better support their patients.

This qualitative study will explore the daily clinical experience of the health professionals involved in the care of adolescents suffering from chronic musculoskeletal pain. Semi-structured interviews will be analyzed with a phenomenological approach (interpretative phenomenological analysis). The rich phenomenological description will be the first step of a more ambitious project of constructing a multidimensional scale that will help the practitioners with this complex diagnosis.

Conditions

See the medical conditions and disease areas that this research is targeting or investigating.

Chronic (Non-malignant) Musculoskeletal Pain

Study Design

Understand how the trial is structured, including allocation methods, masking strategies, primary purpose, and other design elements.

Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Interventions

Learn about the drugs, procedures, or behavioral strategies being tested and how they are applied within this trial.

semi-structured interviews

Semi-structured face to face or telephone interviews with an open-ended approach. Duration: about 45 minutes. Audio-recorded. Exploration of the experience of taking care of the suffering adolescents.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Check the participation requirements, including inclusion and exclusion rules, age limits, and whether healthy volunteers are accepted.

Inclusion Criteria

* Health care professionals working with the French National Reference in Center Pediatric Rheumatology and Inflammatory Diseases
* Professional experiences on the care of chronic musculoskeletal pain

Exclusion Criteria

\- Refusal to participate in the study
Minimum Eligible Age

25 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

Meet the organizations funding or collaborating on the study and learn about their roles.

URC-CIC Paris Descartes Necker Cochin

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

Identify the individual or organization who holds primary responsibility for the study information submitted to regulators.

Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Learn about the lead researchers overseeing the trial and their institutional affiliations.

Pierre QUARTIER, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Jonathan LACHAL, MD, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Locations

Explore where the study is taking place and check the recruitment status at each participating site.

Cochin hospital

Paris, Paris, France

Site Status

Necker Hospital

Paris, Paris, France

Site Status

Countries

Review the countries where the study has at least one active or historical site.

France

References

Explore related publications, articles, or registry entries linked to this study.

Goodman JE, McGrath PJ. The epidemiology of pain in children and adolescents: a review. Pain. 1991 Sep;46(3):247-264. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(91)90108-A. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 1758709 (View on PubMed)

De Inocencio J. Epidemiology of musculoskeletal pain in primary care. Arch Dis Child. 2004 May;89(5):431-4. doi: 10.1136/adc.2003.028860.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15102634 (View on PubMed)

Anthony KK, Schanberg LE. Pediatric pain syndromes and management of pain in children and adolescents with rheumatic disease. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2005 Apr;52(2):611-39, vii. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2005.01.003.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15820381 (View on PubMed)

Petty RE, Southwood TR, Manners P, Baum J, Glass DN, Goldenberg J, He X, Maldonado-Cocco J, Orozco-Alcala J, Prieur AM, Suarez-Almazor ME, Woo P; International League of Associations for Rheumatology. International League of Associations for Rheumatology classification of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: second revision, Edmonton, 2001. J Rheumatol. 2004 Feb;31(2):390-2. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 14760812 (View on PubMed)

Jaremko JL, Liu L, Winn NJ, Ellsworth JE, Lambert RG. Diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance imaging and radiography in juvenile spondyloarthritis: evaluation of the sacroiliac joints in controls and affected subjects. J Rheumatol. 2014 May;41(5):963-70. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.131064. Epub 2014 Mar 15.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 24634199 (View on PubMed)

Bell DS, Bell KM, Cheney PR. Primary juvenile fibromyalgia syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome in adolescents. Clin Infect Dis. 1994 Jan;18 Suppl 1:S21-3. doi: 10.1093/clinids/18.supplement_1.s21.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 8148447 (View on PubMed)

McGhee JL, Burks FN, Sheckels JL, Jarvis JN. Identifying children with chronic arthritis based on chief complaints: absence of predictive value for musculoskeletal pain as an indicator of rheumatic disease in children. Pediatrics. 2002 Aug;110(2 Pt 1):354-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.110.2.354.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12165590 (View on PubMed)

Sherry DD, McGuire T, Mellins E, Salmonson K, Wallace CA, Nepom B. Psychosomatic musculoskeletal pain in childhood: clinical and psychological analyses of 100 children. Pediatrics. 1991 Dec;88(6):1093-9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 1956724 (View on PubMed)

Kashikar-Zuck S, Goldschneider KR, Powers SW, Vaught MH, Hershey AD. Depression and functional disability in chronic pediatric pain. Clin J Pain. 2001 Dec;17(4):341-9. doi: 10.1097/00002508-200112000-00009.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11783815 (View on PubMed)

- Lachal J, Speranza M, Schmitt A, Spodenkiewicz M, Falissard B, Moro MR, Revah-Levy A. Depression in adolescent from qualitative research to measurement. Adolescent Psychiatry 2012,2(4):296-308.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

- Smith J. Interpretative phenomenological analysis. In: Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Research Methods. 2e éd. Sage Publications Ltd; 2008.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Taieb O, Bricou O, Baubet T, Gaboulaud V, Gal B, Mouthon L, Dhote R, Guillevin L, Rose Moro M. Patients' beliefs about the causes of systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2010 Mar;49(3):592-9. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kep430. Epub 2009 Dec 29.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20040529 (View on PubMed)

Smith JA, Michie S, Stephenson M, Quarrell O. Risk Perception and Decision-making Processes in Candidates for Genetic Testing for Huntington's Disease: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. J Health Psychol. 2002 Mar;7(2):131-44. doi: 10.1177/1359105302007002398.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22114233 (View on PubMed)

Chapman E, Smith JA. Interpretative phenomenological analysis and the new genetics. J Health Psychol. 2002 Mar;7(2):125-30. doi: 10.1177/1359105302007002397.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 22114232 (View on PubMed)

Lefevre H, Loisel A, Meunier BB, Deslandre C, Lemoine N, Moro MR, Quartier P, Lachal J. Chronic idiopathic musculoskeletal pain in youth: a qualitative study. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J. 2019 Dec 27;17(1):86. doi: 10.1186/s12969-019-0389-3.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 31882011 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

Access external resources that provide additional context or updates about the study.

http://www.qsrinternational.com/other

QSR International. Logiciel NVivo pour la recherche qualitative - de l'analyse de contenu et de l'évaluation jusqu'à l'étude de marché \[Internet\]. 2015 \[cité 30 juill 2015\]

Other Identifiers

Review additional registry numbers or institutional identifiers associated with this trial.

2017-A00842-51

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

NI16015

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

More Related Trials

Additional clinical trials that may be relevant based on similarity analysis.

Pain Sensitivity During Puberty
NCT05145595 COMPLETED NA
Menstrual Pain Intervention Among Students
NCT07155291 NOT_YET_RECRUITING NA