Observational Study of the Quality of Life for the Chronic Pain Patients Included in a Therapeutic Education Program Focused on Relaxation Techniques

• Conditions: Chronic Pain
• Interventions: Other: questionnary SF36; Other: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; Other: Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire; Other: digital pain scale

• Registration Number: NCT04536155
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Metropole Savoie

Brief Summary

The benefit of learning psychocorporal techniques in Therapeutic Education on the quality of life of patients with chronic pain will be studied.

The purpose of this nursing research protocol is to highlight the improvement of the quality of life of chronic pain patients through psycho-physical techniques performed during group therapeutic education workshops.

Detailed Description

The study will be performed at Centre for the Study and Treatment of Pain. The patients with chronic pain will participate to a group programm of therapeutic education.

The programm consists of 9 workshops about psycho-corporal techniques performed in group.

The patients will complete questionnaries before beginning the program, at the end of the programm, 6 months after the end of the program, and 12 months after the end of program.

The questionnaries will be SF36, HADS, CPAQ, and digital pain scale.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-01-02
• Study First Submitted: 2020-01-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-08-28
• Study First Posted: 2020-09-02
• Status Verified: 2022-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-06-14
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-15
• Primary Completion: 2022-10-02
• Study Completion: 2023-10-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 72

Inclusion Criteria

• chronic pain since more the 3months
• Patients for whom a group "relaxation techniques" program is planned and accepted by the patient

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient with progressive cancer pain
• severe psychiatric pathology (example: psychosis, deep melancholy)
• Patient not compliant or refusing to participate in research
• Person who does not understand French, or illiterate
• Person physically unable to complete questionnaires (visually impaired or blind)
• Person protected by sections L1121-5 to L1121-8.1 of the French Public Health Code

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
patient with chronic pain	Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire	-
patient with chronic pain	questionnary SF36	-
patient with chronic pain	Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale	-
patient with chronic pain	digital pain scale	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
change of quality of life during the program	score at the end of the workshop compared to the score at the beginning	SF36 score

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Evolution in patient's acceptance of chronic pain:after the end	Comparison at different moments in time - beginning, end, 6 months after, 12 months after	assessed by Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire
Change in perceived pain	Assessment at the beginning of the program and 12 months after the end using a numerical pain scale	assessed by numeric pain scale
Change in quality of life	Comparison between the beginning of the program and twelve months after the end of the program.	assessed by sf36 score
Change in anxiety and depression	Comparison at different moments in time - beginning, end, 6 months after, 12 months after	assessed by HADS
Change in physical activity	Change in physical activity between the beginning of the program and 12 months after the end	assessed by SF36 Physical Activity Sub-Scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CH Metropole Savoie; 🇫🇷 Chambéry, France