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Case Series Evaluation of Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy in Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT03658226 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 8

Last updated 2019-09-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Many people in the world have chronic pain; this is pain which lasts more than twelve weeks. Pain can cause people to feel low in mood and change how they feel about themselves and others around them. Therapy for chronic pain does not always work and often people do not have lasting effects from treatment. This study hopes to see if a different therapy, called Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT), can help people with chronic pain. This therapy looks at how we see ourselves and our relationships with others; it aims to help people address personal problems that make it difficult for them to manage their pain.

The study aims to show that PIT is a suitable treatment for chronic low back pain and that people will have fewer problems with their mood, how they feel about themselves and their relationships. This study will give people with chronic low back pain eight sessions of PIT and during therapy they will fill in forms about their pain, mood, relationship problems and how they feel about themselves. We will also look at practical things to do with the therapy (e.g. how many sessions people came to, reasons for stopping therapy etc.) and ask people about how they felt about the therapy they had. Three months after the study has finished, people will be asked to fill in the forms again to see if the effects have lasted.

This research could help to give people with chronic pain a new and different treatment option which has good and lasting effects.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT)

PIT is conversational model of psychotherapy; participants will receive 8 sessions of this therapy once weekly. The first session will be 2 hours and all remaining sessions will be 50 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Charlotte Morgan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Charlotte Morgan · University of Manchester

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-19
Primary Completion
2019-03-29
Completion
2019-09-09

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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