Study of Pain Catastrophizing
- Conditions
- Osteo Arthritis Knee
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Pain EducationBehavioral: 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
- symptomatic knee OA
- 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
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Pain Education Group Pain Education This group will receive general information about the neurobiology of pain and knee OA. Pain Catastrophizing Reduction Group Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention This group will be assigned to a 30-minute, single-session cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to reduce pain catastrophizing.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) at Day 2 Day 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
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
UF Health at the University of Florida
🇺🇸Gainesville, Florida, United States