Response in Patients with Persistent Pelvic Pain to Motor Imagery Through Auditory or Visual Input. a Pilot Randomized Trial.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pelvic Pain
• Interventions: Other: Visual; Other: Auditory

• Registration Number: NCT06343649
• Lead Sponsor: University of Valencia

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the response of Explicit Motor Imagery interventions in patients suffering Persistent Pelvic Pain. The main question it aims to answer is:

• Does the modality of application of Explicit Motor Imagery, either through visual or auditory stimuli, influence the response in patients suffering Persistent Pelvic Pain?

Participants will receive an online Explicit Motor Imagery program either through visual inputs or auditory inputs. They will be instructed to follow the program en register their response.

Researchers will compare visual Explicit Motor Imagery and auditory Explicit Motor Imagery to see if different inputs generate different responses in patients suffering Persistent Pelvic Pain.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-11-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-11-30
• Study Completion: 2023-11-30
• Study First Submitted: 2024-03-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-04-01
• Study First Posted: 2024-04-02
• Status Verified: 2025-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-01-16
• Last Update Posted: 2025-01-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 49

Inclusion Criteria

• Experience persistent pain for a minimum duration of six months.
• Achieve a minimum score of six points on the Chronic Pelvic Pain Questionnaire (CPPQ), a validated instrument designed to assess the discrimination of pain.

Exclusion Criteria

• Participants with a medically diagnosed condition that logically accounts for the presence of pain during the aforementioned six-month period

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Visual Explicit Motor Imagery	Visual	6 exercises of Explicit Motor Imagery, administered on alternate days, using visual inputs in the form of images.
Auditory Explicit Motor Imagery	Auditory	6 exercises of Explicit Motor Imagery, administered on alternate days, using auditory inputs in the form of audio recordings.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain Vigilance and Awareness Questionnaire	Baseline to two weeks	Self-administered questionnaire to measure attention to pain. 16- item questionnaire, where each item is scored as a six- point Likert scale that ranges from zero (never) to five (always), resulting in a sum score between zero and 80. Higher scores indicate worse outcomes.
Numerical Rating Scale	Baseline to two weeks	Self-administered scale that requires the patient to rate their pain intensity on a 0-10 scale, where 0 is no pain and 10 is the worst pain imaginable. Higher scores indicate worse outcomes.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Movement Imagery Questionnaire-Revised	Baseline	Assesses visual and kinesthetic movement imagery abilities. Self-adminstered instrument comprised of 2 subscales: Visual Imagery (4 items) and Kinesthetic Imagery (4 items). Respondents assign a value from a 7-point scale, which indicates the ease or difficulty with which the movement was seen/felt. Higher scores indicate worse movement imagery abilities.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Valencia; 🇪🇸 Valencia, Spain