Patient Experience of Interventional Pain Management. Qualitative Study

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Pain
• Interventions: Other: Qualitative interview

• Registration Number: NCT01838603
• Lead Sponsor: Eques Indolor AB

Brief Summary

There are quite a few qualitative studies done to find out patients experience of chronic pain. There are no studies on what the patients feel and what thoughts and feelings arise in the patients that are exposed to interventional pain management. This study aims to illuminate how it is to live through an interventional pain management program.

Detailed Description

A qualitative interview is performed with patients that have passed through an interventional pain management program. The transcribed interviews are analyzed with qualitative content analysis according to Graneheim and Lundman in order to illuminate the experience, feelings and thoughts arisen among the patients.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-04
• Study First Submitted: 2013-04-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-04-23
• Study First Posted: 2013-04-24
• Status Verified: 2016-09
• Primary Completion: 2017-12-31
• Study Completion: 2017-12-31
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-01-30
• Last Update Posted: 2018-01-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

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

Inclusion Criteria

Patients passed through an interventional pain management program

Exclusion Criteria

Purposeful sampling will be applied

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Interventional pain management patients	Qualitative interview	Patients passed through interventional pain management program

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Experience of interventional pain management	1 year	Qualitative interview performed at one occasion where the patient describes the experience of the interventional pain management he/she has passed through

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Smärtkliniken Eques Indolor; 🇸🇪 Vallentuna, Sweden