An open trial of examining the efficacy and acceptability of an internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) program for chronic pain augmented with daily SMS prompts.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12612000556842

Enrollment

Registered

2012-05-25

Start date

2012-05-07

Completion date

2012-06-07

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This project is part of a research program to develop and evaluate an Internet-based education and treatment program for people with chronic pain. This project examines the efficacy and acceptability of a treatment program to enhance management of pain, anxiety, depression and disability amongst people with chronic pain, when augmented with daily SMS prompts reminder participants to practice self-management skills. We expect that participants will experience improvements across the measures and will rate the SMS prompts as acceptable and helpful.

Interventions

All participants will complete 5 lessons of an Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) treatment focusing on the management of pain, anxiety, depression and disability. One lesson will be completed every 7 to 10 days. Each lesson will take about 15 minutes to complete. Participants will also have access to summaries of each lesson, and will read anonymous stories about other people with chronic pain, taking a further 20 minutes per summary. All participants will also receive automatic email and weekly reminder phone calls by a clinical psychologist. The duration of the reminder emails and phone calls is expected to be 5-10 minutes per week. The duration of the program is 8 weeks. Study questionnaires will be administered at application, pre-education, post-education, and at 3-months post-education. These will take about 10-20 minutes to complete. Participants will be invited to receive generic SMS prompts and consenting participants will start receiving these prompts from week 3 of the course. The SMS prompts will be brief, limited to 1 a day on week days, and designed to remind participants to practice the skills during the day.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Intervention model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Open (masking not used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

- Has experienced Chronic Pain (i.e. Pain > 3 months) - Internet access + Printer access - Australian resident - Has had their pain assessed by their GP

Exclusion criteria

- Psychotic disorder - Pain not assessed by GP - Current or planned psychological treatment during study duration

Outcome results