Medicine Abuse Headache

Medication Overuse Headaches: the Impact of Educative Telephone Coaching Administered by Nurses Prior to the Medical Appointment in a Tertiary Consultation Center: a Comparative Randomized Trial

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01170793

Acronym

CAM-ET

Enrollment

Registered

2010-07-27

Start date

2010-08-01

Completion date

2012-06-01

Last updated

2026-05-29

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Conditions

Migraine

Keywords

education, quality of life

Brief summary

In patients with MOH, we will evaluate the impact of educative telephone coaching on the number of days with headache over the month preceding the appointment. The educative coaching will be administered by a nurse, during a single phone call and prior to the medical visit

Detailed description

In tertiary centers, it is not unusual for patients to wait for 6 months for a medical appointment. This clinical trial is monocentric, open, randomised. In the first arm, the patients will receive educative telephone coaching at Month 2 by the nurses, over the phone. In the second arm, the patients will not receive any educative telephone coaching before the appointment with the neurologist. All patients will complete "Quality of life" questionnaires at Month 1 and Months 6, complete a migraine agenda during the length of the study and have a medical appointment around Month 6. The primary outcome will be the efficacy of such educative telephone coaching, administered before the medical appointment in the Chronic Pain Center, in Bordeaux. It will be measured by the number of days with headache over the month preceding the appointment.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALeducative telephone coaching (ETC)

a 30 to 45 minutes phone call, by appointment, by the nurse

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Adults, male or female, \> 18 years old * Patients with a presumptive medication overuse headache diagnostic (\>15 days/month with migraines, \> 10 days/month intake of crisis treatment) * Persons calling the Chronic Pain Center in Bordeaux and asking for a medical appointment * Informed and written consent, dated and signed by the patient and the investigator prior to any study related procedure

Exclusion criteria

* Patients with a differential diagnostic (other primitive headaches and secondary headaches) * Persons non affiliated to a social security system * Persons who refuse to participate in the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
To evaluate the efficacy of educative telephone coaching administered by the center's nurses prior to the medical on-site visit.	within 6 months

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
To evaluate the efficacy of educative telephone coaching (ETC) on the frequency of headaches and on the number of days with crisis treatment intake.	within 6 months
To evaluate the efficacy of ETC on the patients quality of life and their handicap (emotional, professional and familial data)	within 6 months
To evaluate the patient's satisfaction toward ETC	within 6 months
To evaluate the patient's knowledge concerning migraine, medication overuse headache and their treatment after ETC	within 6 months
To estimate the cost/benefits ratio of ETC and its impact on medical costs ahead of the medical appointment.	within 6 months

Countries

France

Contacts

STUDY_CHAIRGeneviève Chene, MD PhD

University Hospital, Bordeaux

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORVirginie Dousset, MD