Assessment of treatment expectations within the interdisciplinary pain therapy - a culture sensitive translation and validation of the credibility expectancy questionnaire
Recruiting
- Conditions
- F45.41
- Registration Number
- DRKS00017133
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, UniversitätsSchmerzCentrum (USC)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 167
Inclusion Criteria
Patients who suffer from chronic, non-tumor-related pain and are taking part in an interdisciplinary pain therapy in one of two cooperating institutions (UniversitätsSchmerzCentrum Dresden, Rückenschmerz-Zentrum Essen) will be included in the study.
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion criteria are tumor-related pain, age under 18 years, a lack of a certain physical or psychological stability required for the treatment program (tested within medical, psychological and physiotherapeutic assessments), or severe psychiatric disorders.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - translated version of the CEQ at t1 (before the patients start the therapy program) and t2 (one week after the beginning of the treatment program)<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - questionnaire about treatment expectations and therapy evaluation (PATHEV; Schulte, 2005) at both t1 and t2<br>- questionnaire assessing their overall expectation of self-efficacy (SWE, Schwarzer & Jerusalem, 1988) at both t1 and t2<br>- the German version of the Pain catastrophizing scale (Meyer, Sprott & Mannion, 2008) at t1, t3 (the end of the therapy) and t4 (10 weeks after the end of the treatment)<br>- the German version of the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ-D) (Nilges, Köster & Schmidt, 2007) at t1, t3 and t4<br>- the Pain Disability Index (PDI) (Dillmann, Nilges, Saile & Gerbershagen, 1994) at t1, t3 and t4<br>- the SF-12 as a short form of the SF-36 (Bullinger, 2000), whereby only the scale overall perception of health will be used at t1, t3 and t4<br>- overall evaluation of treatment success on a 5-point rating scale (very good - bad) at t3 and t4 (Deutscher Schmerzfragebogen der DGSS, web-link: http://www.dgss.org/deutscher-Schmerzfragebogen/)