Chronic pain
Conditions
Interventions
Group A: 70 patients who will receive the medication organized in pillbox devices. Group B: 70 patients who will receive the medication and the pill holder not previously organized. Group C: 70 patien
Device
Sponsors
Departamento de Anestesiologia
Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho" Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
Departamento de Anestesiologia
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 90 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients 18 years of age or older; with diagnosis of chronic pain; by the HCFMB-Unesp Pain Outpatient Clinic for a period of less than 1 year in an uninterrupted manner; be in use of at least two types of analgesic medication like opioids, anticonvulsants, common analgesics and antidepressants, in a maximum of four times a day; residing in the city of Botucatu and region; and be responsible for the administration and organization of analgesic medications
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with low cognitive capacity and illiterate; patients with cancer pain or fibromyalgia; history of non-adherence to other treatments; during the study, of dose adjustments and prescription of other medications
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is hoped that the use of the device-the-flag you may be better at medicating drugs patients from the diagnosis of the chronic chronic. Drug adherence will be measured by means of the "Instrument of Measurement of Adhesion to Treatments" (MAT), composed by questions answered by means of a Likert scale of "one" a "five", as greater or greater end, the better the adhesion of the participant. The MAT was published in the first version of the participants and published in six months of intervention. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected that with the use of the pill holder device, it will improve the compliance of the study participants, thus improving their pain levels. To evaluate the pain scores of the participants, two questionnaires, the "Visual Analogue Pain Scale" (EVA) and the Portuguese version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) will be used. EVA is a one-dimensional instrument for measuring pain and good reliability, its scores ranging from 0 cm (without pain) to 10 cm (worst possible pain). BPI is a method for measuring and evaluating pain in a multidimensional perspective, it includes 15 items that assess the existence, severity, location, functional interference, applied therapeutic strategies and effectiveness of pain treatment, and their scores are measured through questions with a percentage, Likert scale from "zero" (no pain) to "ten" (the strongest pain you can imagine) points, response with "yes" or "no" alternative, identification of pain site and treatments in use . In order to evaluate if there was improvement in the pain threshold of the participants during the research, the two questionnaires will be applied in the first intervention of the participants and after six months of intervention. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactMarlene Moro
Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
Outcome results
None listed