Singing for Chronic Pain, a New Intervention for the Management of Chronic Pain

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Chronic Pain
• Interventions: Other: Singing

• Registration Number: NCT04111861
• Lead Sponsor: Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Brief Summary

The aim of the project is to determine the feasibility of delivering a Singing for Chronic Pain (SCP) programme to patients with chronic pain attending a pain clinic.

The investigator will also be looking to provide a preliminary estimate of the benefit of SCP on self-efficacy, self -management skills, mindfulness and well-being as measured by standardized outcome measures.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-09-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-09-30
• Study First Posted: 2019-10-01
• Study Start: 2020-03-03
• Status Verified: 2021-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-11-08
• Last Update Posted: 2021-11-09
• Primary Completion: 2022-08-18
• Study Completion: 2022-08-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age or older and have a diagnosis of chronic pain with a duration of 6 months or more.

Exclusion Criteria

• Having a mental health and/or physical health diagnosis that might prevent active engagement/participation in group sessions; Severe hearing impairment; Severe/profound cognitive impairment that may limit active engagement/participation in group sessions.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intevention	Singing	To see if singing can be used as a detractive method from patients experiencing ongoing pain.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Consent rate	One year	Measure of those offered the programme who consent to take part
Completion rate	One year	Measure of attendance at sessions

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self reported ability to self-manage pain	One year	Patient Activation Measure questionnaire
Increased mindfulness Increased mindfulness Increased mindfulness	One year	Frieburg Mindfulness questionnaire
Self reported well-being	One year	Edinburgh Warwick Well-being questionnaire
Self reported self efficacy	One year	Pain Self-efficacy questionnaire
Self reported anxiety depression	One year	Hospital Anxiety and Depression questionnaire.The HADS is a fourteen item scale that generates ordinal data. Seven of the items relate to anxiety and seven relate to depression. Anxiety scores and depression scores can range for 0 -21 with a higher score being worse. The separate depression and anxiety scores scores can be combined to give an overall score.
Self reported quality of life	One year	EQ5D Quality of Life Questionnaire The EQ-5D questionnaire has two components: health state description and evaluation.Health status is measured in terms of five dimensions (5D); mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression. The respondents self-rate their level of severity for each dimension using three-level (EQ-5D-3L) or five-level (EQ-5D-5L) scale.; In the evaluation part, the respondents evaluate their overall health status using the visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS).he answers given to ED-5D permit to find 243 unique health states or can be converted into EQ-5D index an utility scores anchored at 0 for death and 1 for perfect health. The EQ-5D questionnaire also includes a Visual Analog Scale (VAS), by which respondents can report their perceived health status with a grade ranging from 0 (the worst possible health status) to 100 (the best possible health status).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Royal Cornwall Hospital; 🇬🇧 Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom