Chronic Pain
Conditions
Keywords
chronic pain, community-dwelling, older adults, physical activity, physiotherapy, behavioural medicine, biopsychosocial, exercise, independency, everyday activities, self-efficacy, quality of life, pain-related beliefs, pain-related disability
Brief summary
The aim for the study is to examined the effect of an individually tailored integrated behavioral medicine in physiotherapy intervention including functional exercise, for older adults, having chronic musculoskeletal pain, living alone and dependent on formal care. The study is a pragmatic randomized controlled trial with one intervention group and one control group. The intervention is a 12-weeks home-based program. The intervention consists of an individually tailored intervention and aims to enhance ability to perform everyday activities by improving physical function and reduce pain-related beliefs and pain-related disability. The comparison group achieves general advice about physical activity. All participants will be tested at baseline, a post-assessment at 12 week and a three month follow-up. Primary outcome is pain interference by the Brief Pain Inventory and physical function by Short Physical Performance Battery. Secondary outcomes measures if the goal setting is reached, self-efficacy in relation to the goal setting, pain catastrophizing, level of physical Activity, falls efficacy and Health related quality of life.
Detailed description
Intervention group The base for the intervention is to identify a problematic everyday activity and identify factors, including physical, psychological and environmental factors, that can inhibit and/or promote the ability to perform the activity. The exercise that will improve the physical factors will be based on functional exercise such as Balance training and muscle strength training, e.g. fast walking in circle, marching on the spot with a high knee lift, leg lifts, power walking and stair walking, squats, lunge, turning trunk and head while standing, and walking over obstacles. Number of exercises and the dosage are based on how much the participant are able to do and want to do and will increase progressively considering the changes in function and health status of the participants. The content of the visits is as follow: Session: Identification of a problematic everyday activity and advice about physical activity. Session 2: Doing functional behavioural analyse including goal setting, discuss performance dosage of training. Session 3-5: Training in the basic physical and psychological skills relevant to goal setting. Session 6-9: Training to apply basic skills adequately for the goal setting, application of basic and applied skills to other behaviours, starting with subsequent activity goals. Discussion about how the participant can be able to maintain their new behaviour. Discussion of problem-solving strategies, how he/she can prevent and address new activity problems that may arise related to the goal setting and in relation to being physically active. During the intervention period will the participant receive visits by a physiotherapist during intervention weeks 1-8 and 12. Under week 10 will the participants receive one telephone call for support. Non-intervention Group The comparison group will receive standard care which means that the participants get one visit from physiotherapist which consist of written and oral information about general advice regarding physical Activity..Further will the comparison group receive telephone Calls to remind them of being physically active according to the advice during week 1-8 and week 10.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALIndividual tailored functional exercise
Receive individual tailored exercise to increase ability to perform everyday activities through increased physical function and self-efficacy in relation to be able to exercise and decreased pain-related beliefs such as fear of falling, catastrophizing thoughts and fear of movement.
BEHAVIORALStandard care
Receives written and oral advice about physical Activity and the benefits of being physically active by one visits from a physiotherapist. Than will the participants receive Telephone reminder about following the advice once a week during intervention week 1-8 and 10.
Sponsors
Oslo Metropolitan University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
75 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 75 years, Living in the central part of Oslo, Norway Living alone in ordinary housing Dependent on home help services for individual care and/or housekeeping activities or home care for medical needs The presence of musculoskeletal pain for three month or longer Ability to walk independently indoors, with or without a walking aid Ability to understand and speak Norwegian Ability to fill in activity diary or to have someone to help them with that.
Exclusion criteria
Older adults ongoing physiotherapy treatment for injury/illness, Are in a palliative stage of treatment Have experienced heart failure in the past three months.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pain-related disability measured with the pain interference score in Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) | six month | Pain-related disability will be measured with the pain interference score in Brief Pain Inventory (BPI). The BPI is a self-report pain assessment tool and the patient is instructed to report pain as intensity and as interference with seven different functions. The interference scale includes seven items which assess pain's interference with general activity, mood, walking ability, normal work, relations with other persons, sleep, and enjoyment of life. The BPI has shown to be The BPI is validated for use in older adults with non cancer pain. |
| Physical function measured by the Norwegian version of the Short Physical Performance Battery | six month | Physical function will be measured by the Norwegian version of The short physical performance battery. The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) evaluates balance, mobility and muscle strength by examining an individual's ability to stand with feet together in side-by side, semi-tandem and tandem positions, time to walk 8 ft and time to rise from a chair and return to the seated position five times. Each of the three tests is scored, based on performance between 0 and 4, leaving a maximum score of 12 for those individuals performing at the highest levels. The SPPB is a reliable and valid measure of lower extremity performance. Meaningful changes in the SPPB have been defined. Thus, the SPPB can be used as a standard measure of physical performance both for research and in clinical practice. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pain catastrophizing measured by the Catastrophizing subscale | six month | will be measured with two items from the Catastrophizing subscale which is a part of the Coping strategies questionnaire. |
| Falls efficacy measured by the Norwegian version of the Falls-Efficacy Scale international (FES-I) | six month | is measured by the Norwegian version of the Falls-Efficacy Scale international (FES-I). The FES-I assesses level of concern about falling on a 4 point scale during 16 activities of daily living. Scores range from 16 to 64 with higher scores indicating greater concern about falling. |
| Reach of goal setting | three month | For the participants in the intervention group will the following be checked: If the goal setting is reached or not will be measured by an Yes/No question |
| Health related quality of life measured with SF-12 | six month | will be measured with The Short Form Health survey,SF-12. SF-12 is a shortened version of SF-36 (55)) and has shown to be valid to use among older people. |
| Self-efficacy in relation to goal setting | three month | The participants in the intervention Group will measure their self-efficacy in relation to the goal setting by and Self-efficacy in relation to the goal setting will be measured by a four-graded verbal descriptive scale; Not sure at all, little sure, rather sure, very sure. |
| physical activity level according to a six-point scale | six month | The level of physical activity, including housekeeping activities, was estimated for the summer and winter seasons according to a six-point scale. The scale ranged from hardly any physical activity (level 1) to hard exercise several times a week (level 6). The scale has been shown to be valid for older people. |
| Pain severity measured by the BPI short version | six month | Pain severity measured by the BPI short version. The BPI is a self-report pain assessment tool and the patient is instructed to report pain as intensity and as interference with seven different functions (49). The intensity scale contains four items measuring worst, least and average pain intensity (usually during the past 24 hours or past week) and intensity now. |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Physical activity | baseline | If the participants are so physically active as they wish |
| Consumer questions | at three and six month | To assess the participants expected results of the intervention they will be asked to answer the following questions: How do you experience your physical activity level now after participation in the study? How do you experience your physical activity level now after participation in the study? 3) How are your physically problems now after ending the participation in the study? 4) Do you use what you learned during the intervention to manage or prevent your physically problem? 5) Describe how you use what you have learned to manage or prevent your physically problems 7) Do you take any pain medication more or less or the same Have you visit a physiotherapist Yes/no, if Yes, for what and what treatment did you get |
| Getting outdoors | baseline | If get outdoors by them selves |
| Walking aid | baseline | use of walking aid |
| Age | baseline | Age (years) |
| Gender | baseline | Gender; male/female |
| Home-help services | baseline | Number of home help services |
| Home care | baseline | Number of help from home care |
| Medical diagnoses | baseline | self-reported number Medical diagnoses |
| Pain medication | baseline | self-reported Number and use of pain medication |
| Years With pain | baseline | Number of years With pain |
| Falls | baseline | Number of falls last year |
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed