continuous suffering Persevering pain
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Universiteit Utrecht
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All participants will be between 18 and 75 years of age, capable of speaking and reading Dutch, and have pain in either their back, or their hand, for more than three months or when the pain lasts longer than is expected on basis of the tissue damage. Control participants will be healthy and pain-free as determined by self-report.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Participants will be excluded when they have a severe neurological or psychiatric condition, known cognitive disorders, a cardiac pacemakers, Diabetes, unless on a stable dose current use of sedative psychotropic drugs such as benzodiazepines, barbiturates, tricyclic antidepressants, anticonvulsants sedatives, and classical antihistaminics, acute or chronic pain in other areas than the target area (hand or back), bilateral hand pain, serious injury to both hands, or current participation in another research protocol.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Eye movement behaviour such as saccade accuracy and saccade latency (as a measure of attentional pulling capacity) towards or away from visual targets that have become associated with the pain stimulus are the primary outcome of our study. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| We additionally test reaction time to these visual stimuli and the speed of learning (and unlearning) and investigate whether the attention and learning effects are related to personality and psychological characteristics of the tested population. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed