Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary Pain Education Program in Public Health: a Pragmatic Clinical Trial

NCT ID: NCT05544383

Last Updated: 2022-09-16

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

108 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-10-01

Study Completion Date

2023-06-30

Brief Summary

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The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary pain education program in improving self-efficacy and promoting quality of life in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain in public health. This is a pragmatic clinical trial carried out with patients referred to the Physical Therapy sector of a municipality who will be allocated in an interdisciplinary pain education intervention group or a comparison group of conventional physical therapy treatment.

Detailed Description

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his is a pragmatic clinical trial carried out with patients referred to the Physical Therapy sector of a municipality who will be allocated in an interdisciplinary pain education intervention group or a comparison group of conventional physical therapy treatment. Clinical characteristics of pain will be evaluated by multidimensional questionnaires, in addition to self-efficacy, quality of life, functional literacy and sociodemographic profile. Health professionals will be evaluated by an attitude towards pain inventory. It is expected to demonstrate the effectiveness of interdisciplinary pain education work in managing the biopsychosocial impacts of pain by promoting knowledge and self-management strategies in the care of this chronic condition. As it is a light and collective technology, it can reduce the burden of the disease and support public policy decision-making in the management of chronic pain in public health.

Conditions

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Musculoskeletal Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Intervention group

Interdisciplinary Pain Education Program and conventional physical therapy treatment

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Interdisciplinary Pain Education Program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

It is an operative group model, with the objective of promoting education in pain, where the patient occupies an active and central space in the learning process, with work focused on the dysfunctional beliefs of chronic pain, performing programmed tasks to promote autonomy in activities daily life and behavior change. The group works with one meeting per week, during the routine opening hours of the clinic, with each day a theme of a professional area being addressed, totaling 5 meetings, lasting approximately two hours.

Conventional Physiotherapy treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

The therapeutic approach consists of rehabilitation methods and techniques, with the aim of restoring, developing and conserving the patient's physical capacity and functionality, including manual therapy and kinesiotherapy, in addition to the use of resources such as electrotherapy, thermotherapy and auriculotherapy. The treatment is performed at the Physiotherapy outpatient clinic, twice a week, with an average duration of 45 minutes, for a period that lasts an average of 10 sessions in clinical cases of chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Comparison group

Conventional physical therapy treatment

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Conventional Physiotherapy treatment

Intervention Type OTHER

The therapeutic approach consists of rehabilitation methods and techniques, with the aim of restoring, developing and conserving the patient's physical capacity and functionality, including manual therapy and kinesiotherapy, in addition to the use of resources such as electrotherapy, thermotherapy and auriculotherapy. The treatment is performed at the Physiotherapy outpatient clinic, twice a week, with an average duration of 45 minutes, for a period that lasts an average of 10 sessions in clinical cases of chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Interventions

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Interdisciplinary Pain Education Program

It is an operative group model, with the objective of promoting education in pain, where the patient occupies an active and central space in the learning process, with work focused on the dysfunctional beliefs of chronic pain, performing programmed tasks to promote autonomy in activities daily life and behavior change. The group works with one meeting per week, during the routine opening hours of the clinic, with each day a theme of a professional area being addressed, totaling 5 meetings, lasting approximately two hours.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Conventional Physiotherapy treatment

The therapeutic approach consists of rehabilitation methods and techniques, with the aim of restoring, developing and conserving the patient's physical capacity and functionality, including manual therapy and kinesiotherapy, in addition to the use of resources such as electrotherapy, thermotherapy and auriculotherapy. The treatment is performed at the Physiotherapy outpatient clinic, twice a week, with an average duration of 45 minutes, for a period that lasts an average of 10 sessions in clinical cases of chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients with a clinical picture of chronic musculoskeletal pain, aged over 18 years, being SUS users referred for Physiotherapy treatment.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients with a clinical picture of acute pain, post-traumatic or post-surgical pain, cancer pain and neuropathic pain, as well as those with autoimmune diseases. Patients with cognitive problems who cannot understand and respond to the questionnaires and who also have other physical disabilities unrelated to the chronic pain condition.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Federal University of Espirito Santo

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Valéria Valim

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Valéria Valim, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Federal University of Espirito Santo

Central Contacts

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Valéria Valim, PhD

Role: CONTACT

+55 27 33157899

Other Identifiers

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FUEspiritoSanto

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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