Development of an Online Program to Help Manage Chronic Pain in Children and Teenagers

Last updated: March 24, 2020
Sponsor: University of Southampton
Overall Status: Active - Recruiting

Phase

N/A

Condition

Chronic Pain

Pain

Treatment

N/A

Clinical Study ID

NCT03992976
45429
19BO01
  • Ages 12-17
  • All Genders

Study Summary

This research seeks to develop an internet-based program to help teenagers manage pain at home using a variety of techniques from physiotherapy, medicine, psychology and nursing. This study uses interviews to investigate what content and features teenagers and their parents want to see in an online intervention for managing chronic pain in teenagers.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adolescents aged 12 to 17 years

  • Adolescents experiencing chronic pain of any type (minimum duration of three months).

  • Parents or legal guardians of adolescents, aged 12 to 17 years, who are experiencingchronic pain of any type (minimum duration of three months).

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unable to communicate in fluent, spoken English.

  • Adolescents aged 18 years or over.

  • Adolescents with chronic cancer pain that are continuing to undergo treatments toeradicate their primary cancer or have received these treatments in the last threemonths (maintenance therapies are acceptable).

Study Design

Total Participants: 60
Study Start date:
December 12, 2019
Estimated Completion Date:
March 01, 2021

Study Description

This research seeks to develop an internet-based programme to help teenagers manage pain at home using a variety of techniques that mirror clinical practice. This includes content from medicine, physiotherapy, nursing and psychological techniques, such as relaxation.

The study will use interviews (one semi-structured interview and one 'think-aloud' interview per participant) to explore the question: What content and features do young people with chronic pain, and their parents want to see in an online pain management intervention?

The study seeks to recruit a group of teenagers from Great Ormond Street Hospital, as well as a group of parents. After the first round of interviews, participants have the option to be contacted about the second round.

Recruitment for the first round of interviews will continue up until the point where no additional insights are found by adding new data to the analysis ('point of saturation'). We anticipate 30 teenagers and 30 parents will be sufficient. We hope to recruit young people with a mixture of ages and sexes, as well as a mixture of different pain diagnoses, and parents with varying backgrounds and sexes where possible.

The insights gathered from this study will help develop a new program for managing chronic pain in teenagers, which we aim to make available through the NHS. The internet-based intervention hopes to contribute to successful chronic pain management at home, and may be used as an adjunct to clinical services, such as the Pain Control Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Connect with a study center

  • University of Southampton

    Southampton, SO17 1BJ
    United Kingdom

    Active - Recruiting

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