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The Pain & Stress Interview Study for People With Chronic Pain

NCT04498663 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 91

Last updated 2022-08-02

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Summary

The goal of the study is to determine whether a brief, therapeutic interview can help patients improve their pain and health by addressing psychological issues that are known to drive chronic musculoskeletal pain. This randomized, controlled trial tests the efficacy of a brief, one-session therapeutic interview for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain and histories of childhood adversity. Adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain will be randomized to either a therapeutic interview condition or a waitlist control condition. The therapeutic interview will be 90-minute session during which participants will be encouraged to disclose stressful experiences, express important emotions, and identify connections between their life stress and their pain, which we hope will increase their psychological attributions for pain and reduce their pain, interpersonal problems, and psychological distress. The study will compare the therapeutic interview condition to a delayed interview condition and will follow patients for 6 weeks to identify changes in response to the interview. Participants in the therapeutic interview condition are expected to show more improvement on pain severity, pain interference, psychological distress, interpersonal function, and psychological attitudes toward pain at follow-up, relative to participants in the delayed interview condition.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Emotion- and Relationship-Focused Therapeutic Interview

In this study, the therapeutic interview will be one-session lasting 90 minutes. Participants will explore prior and ongoing stressful life experiences. Participants will be educated about the role of stress in pain and will be encouraged to identify links between stressors, psychological and emotional conflicts related to the stressors, and their pain symptoms. The interview will encourage the experience and expression of previously avoided emotions related to interpersonal stressors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mark A. Lumley

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mark Lumley, PhD · Wayne State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-09-10
Primary Completion
2021-06-30
Completion
2021-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

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