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Spinal Cord Stimulator Implant Study

NCT00887419 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 101

Last updated 2018-07-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study is for patients who have been approved by their doctors and insurance companies to receive spinal cord stimulator implants.

The goal of this study is to investigate if pain and disability is improved in patients with an implant in combination with coping skills training. These patients are compared with those with an implant that receive chronic education information and those with an implant that are in the control group and receive no additional training or information.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Coping Skills Training

Patients meet individually with therapist for 6 sessions to learn coping skills for stress management, behavioral activation, and communication.

BEHAVIORAL

Education

Patients meet individually with a health educator for 6 sessions in a presentation/discussion format to receive basic information on the etiology and treatment of chronic pain.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Laura Porter, Ph.D. · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2013-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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