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Study of Pain Catastrophizing

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Osteo Arthritis Knee
Interventions
Behavioral: Pain Education
Behavioral: Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention
Registration Number
NCT03836586
Lead Sponsor
University of Florida
Brief Summary

This study proposes to experimentally manipulate pain catastrophizing in order to investigate the neural mechanisms by which pain catastrophizing influences the experience of pain among non-Hispanic Blacks (NHBs) and non- Hispanic Whites (NHWs) with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Therefore, participants will be randomized to either a single session cognitive-behavioral intervention to reduce pain catastrophizing or a pain education control group.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
10
Inclusion Criteria
  • symptomatic knee OA
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Exclusion Criteria
  • Younger than 45 years of age or older than 85 years of age
  • Prosthetic knee replacement or other clinically significant surgery to the arthritic knee
  • uncontrolled hypertension (>150/95)
  • Heart disease including heart failure
  • Peripheral neuropathy in which pain testing was contraindicated
  • Systemic rheumatic disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, gout, and fibromyalgia
  • Neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, stroke with loss of sensory or motor function, or uncontrolled seizures
  • Significantly greater pain in body sites other than in the knee
  • Daily opioid use
  • Hospitalization within the preceding year for psychiatric illness
  • Currently pregnant or nursing/breastfeeding
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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Pain Education GroupPain EducationThis group will receive general information about the neurobiology of pain and knee OA.
Pain Catastrophizing Reduction GroupCognitive-Behavioral InterventionThis group will be assigned to a 30-minute, single-session cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to reduce pain catastrophizing.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) at Day 2Day 2

13-item scale that assesses catastrophic thinking associated with pain. The study team will administer the PCS using traditional instructions (a measure of trait catastrophizing) and instructions to assess situation-specific catastrophizing ("Thinking back to your experience during the laboratory pain testing"). Thoughts and feelings concerning pain are ranked on a 0-4 scale, with 0 being the patient has this thought/feeling 'not at all' to 4, the patient has this thought feeling 'all the time.' The PCS total score is computed by summing responses to all 13 items. PCS total scores range from 0 - 52. Higher scores indicate the presence of catastrophizing and therefore worse outcome.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

UF Health at the University of Florida

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Gainesville, Florida, United States

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