The Effect of Pain Education Group Therapy and Its Impact on Chronic Pain, Kinesiophobia, and Physical Activity

Physical Activity in Patients With Chronic Pain, Its Adherence to WHO Physical Activity Recommendations, and Its Associations With Kinesiophobia, Central Sensitization, Depression, and Pain Intensity

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT07491549

Enrollment

Registered

2026-03-24

Start date

2026-04-01

Completion date

2030-12-30

Last updated

2026-03-30

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Conditions

Chronic Pain

Keywords

chronic pain, depression, pain education, physical activity, kinesiophobia

Brief summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if pain knowledge group intervention among chronic pain patients would influence their level of physical activity, pain intensity, depression, kinesiophobia and central sensitization. The main question it aims to answer is: Primary hypothesis: pain education will decrease participants' depression and pain intensity and increase their physical activity. There is no comparison group. Participants will participate in a 6-week pain knowledge intervention where they will be learning about sleep, stress models, physical activity benefits, pain neurobiology, mindfulness, pain medication.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALpain education

In one group there will be 8-12 participants who will meet once a week during 6 -weeks time. The educational sessions will be 2-hours long including sometimes some exercises and also reflection of the participants.

Study design

Allocation

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

16 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Pain lasting longer than 3 months, * Consequences resulting from long-term pain (such as decreased physical activity, sleep disturbances, fatigue, low mood, etc.)

Exclusion criteria

* Surgery that occurred less than 3 months prior * Fracture or limb trauma that occurred less than 3 months prior

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change of pain intensity from baseline to 6-weeks	from enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks	Pain is measured using Graded Chronic Pain Scale -Revised where the lowest value is 0 and the highest is 100. The higher the score, the more pain the subject feels.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change in depression from baseline to 6-weeks	from enrollment to the end of treatment at 6 weeks	Depression is measured using Emotional well-being questionnaire where the lowest value is 0 and the highest value is 100. Lower score indicates worse health condition.

Countries

Estonia

Contacts

CONTACTHanna Kalajas-Tilga, PhD

hanna.kalajas-tilga@ut.ee+372 5816 1041

CONTACTMati Arendi, PhD

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 31, 2026