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

ConditionChronic Pain
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age16-65
SponsorUniversity of Tartu

About this trial

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.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Pain lasting longer than 3 months,

Consequences resulting from long-term pain (such as decreased physical activity, sleep disturbances, fatigue, low mood, etc.)

Disqualifiers

Surgery that occurred less than 3 months prior

Fracture or limb trauma that occurred less than 3 months prior

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • pain education

Treatment groups

50 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators