Treatment Options for Pediatric Chronic Pain: How do we Best Disseminate Our Scientific Findings

Completed

• Conditions: Pediatric Chronic Pain
• Interventions: Other: No intervention, observational study

• Registration Number: NCT05239299
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Brief Summary

Pediatric chronic pain is a prevalent condition with manifold treatment options. However, knowledge of targeted dissemination of intervention research findings is currently lacking.

The aim of this project is to determine satisfaction with current knowledge transfer from science to clinical practice amongst health care professionals, adolescents with CPP and their parents and to understand what treatment options have been offered to patients in Swiss pain centers Three focus groups, one with health care professionals, one with adolescent patients, and one with their parents, will be conducted to determine how the dissemination of scientific evidence to clinical practice can be improved and what hurdles exists when gathering information about pain interventions. In addition, patients will be asked about the treatment options offered to them and health care professionals about which treatments they routinely prescribe and why.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-02-04
• Study First Posted: 2022-02-14
• Study Start: 2022-05-21
• Primary Completion: 2024-01-30
• Study Completion: 2024-12-31
• Status Verified: 2025-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-01-30
• Last Update Posted: 2025-02-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 19

Inclusion Criteria

Adolescent group:

• Adolescents suffering from chronic pain (i.e., persistent or recurrent pain for three months or more)
• Able to read and speak German

Parent group:

• Parents of an adolescent with chronic pain
• Able to read and speak German

Health care professionals group:

• Health care professional working with adolescents with chronic pain
• Able to read and speak German

Exclusion Criteria

• no chronic pain or experience with chronic pain

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health care professionals who work with adolescents with chronic pain	No intervention, observational study	-
Adolescents with chronic pain	No intervention, observational study	-
Parents of adolescents with chronic pain	No intervention, observational study	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Information seeking behavior	immediattely after the focus group	Participants' key messages will be reduced to major subjects by means of content analysis. The goal is to understand participants' information seeking behavior with regard to chronic pain and interventions for chronic pain

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel; 🇨🇭 Basel, Switzerland