F45.41
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: All patients within this study will receive a five week long pain treatment in an interdisciplinary multimodal outpatient setting.
The emotional competence is quantified with the help of the
third-party evaluation version: N = 421).
The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso-Emotional-Intelligence-Test - MSCEIT (Steinmayr et al., 2011) is applied to survey emotional intelligence. The paper-pencil test la
Sponsors
USC - Universitäts SchmerzCentrumUniversitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The investigation includes adult patients with chronic, non-tumor-pain (head, back and joint pain), who attend an out-patient interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy of the USC Dresden. Prerequisites for treatment are a chronic pain syndrome, the lack of success using uni-modal therapy approaches and associated psychosocial or pain-related impairment in daily life. In spite of this, a sufficient physical performance for the treatment must be given.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Exclusion criteria are cancer-related pain, an age under 18 years, acute organic findings (e.g. serious cardiac disease), severe psychiatric comorbid diseases (psychotic disorders, personality disorders, current trauma, acute suicide risk) or specific social constraints (distance from the clinic, in some circumstances ongoing pension procedures).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Primary parameters are I. emotional competences (1) recognize their own emotions (Self - and external rating scales of the Emotional-Competence- Questionnaire - EKF) (2) recognition of emotions in others (EKF) (3) Regulation and control of their own feelings (EKF) (4) emotional expressivity (EKF) a) constructive attention steering (German self-report instrument for the assessment of emotion-specific regulation skills - ERSQ-ES) b) clarity (ERSQ-ES) c) understanding (ERSQ-ES) d) acceptance (ERSQ-ES) e) tolerance (ERSQ-ES) f) Confrontation readiness (ERSQ-ES) g) Effective self support (ERSQ-ES) h) Modification outcome (ERSQ-ES) i) Change-related self efficiency (ERSQ-ES) j) Modification skills (ERSQ-ES). Emotional competences will be quantified by self-assessment questionnaires (EKF, ERSQ-ES) at the beginning of the outpatient treatment, the end of the 4- week treatment and after the refresher week. The external assessment of the emotional competences will be investigated after the fourth week of the outpatient treatment. II.emotional intelligence (subgroup) Moreover, before starting the outpatient setting treatment the underlying emotional intelligence will be examined (experience-based emotional intelligence, strategic emotional intelligence) within a subgroup by means of a performance test (Mayer-Salovey-Caruso-Emotional-Intelligence-Test - MSCEIT). | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary parameters are III.) therapy outcomes of the interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy (assessed when the treatment starts (T1), after 4 weeks (T2) and after the refresher week (T3)): catastrophization (Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS, Meyer et al. 2008)), acceptance (Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (German version, CPAQ-D, Nilges et al. 2007)), quality of life (Short Form 12 (Bullinger and Kirchberger, 1998)), depression and anxiety (Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS;Nilges and Essau, 2015), pain intensity and pain impairment (German version of Chronic Pain Grading Questionnaire - CPGQ (Klasen et al., 2004)) IV.) the method of assessing emotional competence: self-assessment external assessment performance test. V.) Furtermore, possible interference and accompanying sizes are going to be assessed within the basic documentation before starting pain treatment: sex, VI.) age, VII.) level of education, VIII.) grade of pain chronification. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactAnne Juliane Körner
USC - Universitäts SchmerzCentrumUniversitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus
Outcome results
None listed