JOINT SUPPORT: Can we perform a trial to test a caregiver intervention for people with chronic pain?
- Conditions
- Management of pain and associated symptoms for people with chronic musculoskeletal (bone, joint, muscle).Musculoskeletal Diseases
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN78169443
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of East Anglia
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 76
1. Adults aged 18 years and over with a history (6 weeks or more) of pain from a musculoskeletal (bone, joint or muscle) origin.
2. Patient currently has a secondary care referral or is attending physiotherapy, rheumatology, orthopaedic, occupational therapy or pain management services.
3. Patients able to nominate an individual who is an informal caregiver. An informal caregiver is defined as someone who has done or is expected to provide unpaid care, assistance, support or supervision in activities of daily living for at least three hours per week over two or more personal contacts.
4. Patients and caregivers willing and able to provide consent.
5. Patients and caregivers who can engage in a group-based intervention currently delivered in English.
6. If the participating hospital appointment is routinely an online or virtual appointment rather than an in-person face-to-face appointment, patient and caregiver participants must have access to a computer or tablet and internet services to receive a video consultation call.
1. Patients or caregivers with acute (requiring hospitalisation) or terminal illness (life expectancy <six weeks) which would make participation in the rehabilitation strategies contraindicated and/or impractical.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Ability to screen and identify potential participants (patients and caregivers) across the 5 sites measured using screening log data at baseline and 3 months follow-up<br>2. Willingness of eligible participants to consent and be randomised to intervention measured using semi-structured interviews at baseline and 3 months follow-up<br>3. Fidelity of healthcare professionals to deliver the experimental intervention and caregivers to adopt these post-group sessions measured using semi-structured telephone interviews at baseline and 3 months follow-up<br>4. Risk of intervention contamination measured using semi-structured interviews at baseline and 3 months follow-up
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method