The PAINN Study - a Pilot Cross Sectional Study

Pain Prevalence and Management in Neurological and Neurosurgical in Patients- the PAINN Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06980987

Acronym

PAINN

Enrollment

Registered

2025-05-20

Start date

2024-01-03

Completion date

2024-05-01

Last updated

2025-05-20

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Conditions

Home Mechanical Ventilation, Hospitalized Patient, Pain, Pain Management

Keywords

Pilot cross sectional study, Neurological patients, Home mechanical ventilation

Brief summary

Pain prevalence in hospitalized patients has been reported between 65% and 75%, indicating poor and/or insufficient management. In addition, pain prevalence has been estimated for separate groups of individuals with specific neurological/neurosurgical conditions (25% - 84%) and the overall prevalence was calculated as 36% (95% CI: 31% - 42%). However, investigations on prevalence of pain in Danish neurologic inpatients is scarce, which may indicate an overlooked symptom in local neurologic settings. This project was a cross-sectional investigation to identify pain prevalence, intensity and interference in admitted patients needing home menicahal ventilation (HMV) and we conducted as an exploratory investigation to collect data from the patients by pain questionnaires/instruments, observation of patients' pain behavior and physiologic parameters. The main patients' diagnoses were spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, and defects from birth such as tracheomalacia. The study included 40 participants, all recruited from Respiratory Center East, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

persons hospital admitted, minimum 18 years old, provided informed consent (provided by the patient or patient's relative).

Exclusion criteria

persons who did not understand written and spoken Danish or denied participating in the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Brief Pain Inventory	24 hours	Pain impact on domains of every day life.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
GAD-7	24 hours	Anxiety/depression
PHQ-9	24 hours	Anxiety/depression
The Barthel Index	24 hours	Physical performance status

Countries

Denmark

Outcome results