Does Boredom Affect Mechanical Pain Thresholds

NCT ID: NCT06833047

Last Updated: 2025-04-29

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-03-25

Study Completion Date

2025-04-25

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to investigate if the feeling of boredom could influence mechanical pain thresholds.

Detailed Description

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Participants will be randomized into 3 different groups watching different short video-clips (2.30 min). The boredom group will watch a boring video about ploughing, the distraction control group will watch a positively valenced video, the control group will just wait for 2.30 min, without any instructions about what to think about. Pressure pain thresholds will be measured with an algometer before and after the video-clip interventions.

Conditions

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Pain Threshold Healthy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants will be randomized to different conditions.
Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Boredom

The participant will watch a short video with boring content.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Emotional intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants will receive different emotional interventions such as boredom, positive valence, mind-wandering.

Distraction control

The participant will watch a short video with positively valenced content.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Emotional intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants will receive different emotional interventions such as boredom, positive valence, mind-wandering.

Control

The participant will wait for 2.30 minutes without any instructions of what to think about.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Emotional intervention

Participants will receive different emotional interventions such as boredom, positive valence, mind-wandering.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* No pain at the test session
* Swedish fluency.

Exclusion Criteria

* Pain anywhere in the body during the test session
* known neurological disease.
Minimum Eligible Age

19 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Linnaeus University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Helena Gunnarsson

Dr

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Linnaeus University

Vaxjo, , Sweden

Site Status

Countries

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Sweden

Other Identifiers

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Dnr 2024-07849-01

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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