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Clinical Study on Implicit Learning, Comorbidity and Stress Vulnerability in Chronic Functional Pain

NCT00222209 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2006-08-03

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Summary

The project investigates on the role of pain avoidance, comorbidity and stress response for the development of chronic somatic and visceral pain. We, the researchers at University Hospital Mannheim, assume that implicit operant learning of pain sensitization is a central mechanism of the process of pain becoming chronic, which is augmented by fear and by avoidance behaviour. Somatic and psychological comorbidity as well as stress factors are further promoting factors in chronic pain development.

Conditions

  • Fibromyalgia
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Experimental heat pain model

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • German Research Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universitätsmedizin Mannheim

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rupert Hoelzl, Prof. Dr. phil. · University of Mannheim

  • Hans-Joachim Bender, Prof. Dr. med. rer. nat. · Universitätsmedizin Mannheim

  • Lothar-Rudi Schad, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. · German Cancer Research Centre Heidelberg

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-09-30
Completion
2007-11-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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