Pain-at-Work Toolkit (Definitive Trial)

Summary

The Pain-at-Work Toolkit has been created together with people who live with chronic pain, employers, healthcare professionals, and a national pain charity. The aim of the toolkit is to help employees with ongoing pain feel more confident in managing their condition at work, know where to find support, and improve their workplace experience, so they can remain in the workforce. People with lived experience of chronic pain will help guide the project throughout, including reviewing study documents and helping choose what outcomes to measure.

The investigators will work with around 30 organisations from different types of workplaces in the UK and invite more than 600 employees who live with pain to take part in the study. Organisation's employees will either receive access to the Pain-at-Work Toolkit and the Pain-at-Work Managers Toolkit ( to help managers support their staff) or the usual care that their organisation offers. Participants will be asked to complete online surveys at three points during the study. Intervention participants may be asked to take part in an interview at the end of the study to find out more about their experiences.

The study will examine whether the toolkit improves people's experience of work, including their productivity and ability to remain productive in their jobs. The investigators will also explore whether the toolkit offers good value for money.

Finally, the investigators will examine how the toolkit is used in practice-what works well, what might need improving, and how it could be made available to more employees in the future. The investigators will do this by interviewing employers or stakeholders involved in the employment of, support for, or policy development for adults with chronic pain.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Pain, Chronic

Interventions

OTHER

The Pain-at-Work Toolkit is an web-based digital resource, providing education and information about behaviour change related to the self-management of chronic pain in the workplace.

This is a workplace trial, participating organisations will be randomized to intervention or control.

OTHER

Control (Standard treatment)

Support as Usual

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Monash University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Aberdeen

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Exeter

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Salford

  collaborator OTHER

• The Nuffield Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Arthritis UK

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Nottingham

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Holly Blake, PhD · University of Nottingham

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2026-04-30

Primary Completion

2028-10-31

Completion

2029-02-28