Chronic pain
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1)Patients are required to meet the following conditions: 1. consenting to voluntary participation of the study with consent form 2. suffering from refractory chronic pain, such as neuropathic pain 3. receiving medical care in one or more of the following department of Okayama University Hospital: 3.1. Anesthesiology and Resuscitology Department 3.2. Neuropsychiatry Department (2)Healthy people are required to meet the following conditions: 1. consenting to voluntary participation of the study with consent form 2. having a mid-level educational experience, more than the average high school graduate 3. over 20 year old
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients who are unable to operate information input devices from some reasons, such as severe pain or motor disturbance, are excluded. There is no key exclusion criteria for healthy person.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Task execution count, the questionnaire on psychological reactance,the Pain Catastrophizing Scale to measure the degree of catastrophic thinking, and the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale to measure fear of pain. Only the number of task executions count is extracted from the system log. Otherwise, after each experiment, measure by questionnaire. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Okayama University Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health Systems