Effectiveness of the Multicomponent Therapy in Chronic Pain Through The Use of Smartphones

Summary

Chronic pain is one of the pathological processes with the greatest impact on the demand of health services. The cost of this process in Spain according to the results is 2.5% of Gross Domestic Product (Breivik, Collett, Ventafridda et al. 2006).Mainly affects women and in it psychological, behavioral and psychological factors converge (Cöster, Kendall, Gerdle et al. 2008). The role of gender as a social determinant of health is known (Stansfeld, 2006).

Multidisciplinary and not only pharmacological intervention stands as a desirable paradigm for addressing this type of health problem, and it is considered necessary to standardize treatment in this regard. Thus, psychological constructs such as the concept of "catastrophization" have demonstrated the relationship between suffering and the displacing experience (Wade, Riddle, Price, Dumenci, 2011) and the psychological framework of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has also revealed its positive effect. .

The rise of new technologies makes it necessary to give added value to the use of digital mobile devices for its potential contribution to the health care of the population, given its immediacy, widespread use, possibility of interaction and increase of the margin of accessibility to health services.

The present project aims to demonstrate that multidisciplinary and combined intervention of pharmacological therapies with specific psychological therapies along with the use of mobile digital devices can improve the management and evolution of chronic pain.

Conditions

• Catastrophization
• Chronic Pain
• Pain, Chronic
• Cognitive Therapy
• Smartphones
• Acceptance, Social

Interventions

OTHER

Multimodal pain therapy

For the elaboration of the contents of the multi-component treatment of the mobile device application (APP), a set of guidelines has been developed for the care of one's own health, based on scientific evidence and adapted to the language of citizens, applying participatory methodology (Loewenson et al. 2014) and consensus, both by professionals (physicians,, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, social educators and health professionals), and expert patients, who guarantee their validity, allowing the analysis and selection of the interventions that respond to the health problem. This intervention consists in the implementation of a protocol of standard activities of the interactive psychosocial therapy type.

OTHER

Standardized treatment.

Face-to-face health education sessions led by nurses and physicians, with the possibility to have access to a non-interactive website with pain management materials from a self-help approach.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

TRIPLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-10-30

Primary Completion

2019-03-30

Completion

2020-03-30

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations