Chronic Pain
Conditions
Brief summary
Members with chronic pain will be invited to participate in a 2-hour zoom-delivered pain psychology class entitled Pain, Stress, & Emotions. Surveys are completed at baseline (prior to the online class), a satisfaction survey is completed after the class, and post-treatment surveys completed 2, 4, 8, and 12 1weeks after class attendance.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALPain, Stress and Emotions
2-hour, zoom-delivered, group intervention focused on teaching patients how pain is processed in their brain and learning about the role of psychosocial factors in their pain conditions.
Sponsors
Stanford University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Uncontrolled, prospective, single arm, pre-post intervention study
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Chronic pain condition (pain \> 3 months) * Access to the internet * English fluency
Exclusion criteria
* Ongoing legal action or disability claim * Cognitive impairment, non-English speaking, or psychological factors that would preclude comprehension of material and/or full participation in the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pain Intensity NRS | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | Self-reported pain intensity rating |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System: Pain Interference short form 6a | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported pain interference levels |
| Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System: Depression 6a | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported depression |
| Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System: Anxiety 6a | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported anxiety |
| Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System: Physical Function 8b | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported physical functioning |
| Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System: Sleep Disturbance 6a | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported sleep disturbance |
| Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System: social isolation 6a | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported social isolation |
| Emotion-Approach Coping | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | 8-item emotion approach coping scale |
| Pain Bothersomeness | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | single-item assessing self-reported levels of pain bothersomeness |
| Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System: fatigue 6a | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported fatigue |
| Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System: anger 5a | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported anger |
| Ambivalence over Emotional Expression (AEQ) | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | self-reported ambivalence levels about emotional expression |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pain Attributions Questionnaires | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | Two self-report questionnaires were developed to assess psychological and brain influences on pain. The 4-item psychological attribution scale assesses patients' beliefs that their thoughts and feelings and psychological therapy impacts pain, and the 3-item brain attribution scale assesses patient's beliefs that their pain is brain-based. Mean scores will be computed for both scales separately (0-4; higher scores indicating greater belief that pain is a brain-related \[brain attribution\] construct and that pain is affected by thoughts, feelings, and psychological interventions \[psychological attribution\]) |
| Pain Catastrophizing Scores; measured with Pain Catastrophizing Scale | Change from baseline to 1-Month follow-up (with secondary 2-month follow-up) | Pain Catastrophizing Scale (Sullivan et al., 1995): A summed score of the 13 catastrophizing items will be computed (0-52, higher scores indicate greater catastrophizing) |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed