Counterconditioning as treatment for pai
Recruiting
- Conditions
- The study is conducted in a sample of patients with fibromyalgia
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON27907
- Lead Sponsor
- eiden University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 36
Inclusion Criteria
Female volunteers (= 18 years), with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM) provided by a general practitioner or medical specialist, with current pain complaints as a result of FM, and with a good understanding of written and spoken Dutch.
Exclusion Criteria
Physical conditions other than FM explaining pain symptoms, severe psychiatric comorbidities that are not related to the fibromyalgia symptoms (e.g., schizophrenia), pregnancy or lactation, refusal to remove artificial nails, nail polish, or any other substance covering the thumbnails, having metal-containing implants in the non-dominant arm (including non-removable piercings), carrying a pacemaker or implanted pumps, injuries/open wounds on the non-dominant arm.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The feasibility of the intervention (e.g., satisfaction of participants, drop-out rate).<br>Descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations, etc.) of relevant variables will be calculated.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The comparison of the nocebo effects on pressure pain after counterconditioning and sham counterconditioning. The effect size and confidence interval of the difference in pain from pre- to post-treatment and at 3- and 6-months follow-up will be calculated for the intervention group and the control group, and then compared.