Usefulness of a New Educational Tool for Understanding Pain for Fibromyalgia Patients
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Enrollment
- 300
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Pain Revolution Quiz
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study aims at analyzing the usefulness of a new educational tool developed by Pain Revolution, a compendium of 9 fact sheets along with a related quiz in patients from the Hospital Vall d'Hebron of Barcelona suffering from fibromyalgia, compared to a non-education group. The present study also aims at comparing the usefulness of the new tool based on PNE in two different formats: read and explained.
Detailed Description
Main objective
A compendium of 9 fact sheets along with a related quiz have been developed in order to provide overall population current pain-science knowledge. The present study aims at analyzing the usefulness of this new tool based on pain neuroscience education (PNE) in patients from the Hospital Vall d'Hebron of Barcelona suffering from fibromyalgia, compared to a non-education group.
Secondary objective
Due to the extended content of the fact sheets, these can be delivered to the patient as a reading material or can be used as a support material in a educational presentation. Therefore, this study also aims at comparing the usefulness of the new tool based on PNE in two different formats: read autonomously by the patient and explained by a pain-science expert to the patient.
This is a tree-arm RCT: TAU group and intervention group with 2 different groups as follows:
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Adults from 18 to 75 years-old.
- •1990 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria + the 2011 modified ACR diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia
- •Able to understand Spanish and accept to participate in the study.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Participating in concurrent or past RCTs (previous year).
- •Comorbidity with severe mental disorders (i.e. psychosis) or neurodegenerative diseases (i.e. Alzheimer) that that would limit the ability of the patient to participate in the RCT.
Arms & Interventions
PNE-explained group
The participants in the PNE-explained group will be explained the fact sheets with an explanatory video (due to COVID-19 circumstances) conducted by the therapist M.S. The video will last one hour approximately and it contains a presentation by Mayte Serrat with a view of the fact sheets. This group will be given one week to watch the video and comprehend its content.
Intervention: PNE-explained group (Behavioral)
PNE-read group
The PNE-read group will receive the fact sheets via email along with instructions regarding the content and the procedure to read the content. Instructions will suggest to read only two fact sheets per day during 4,5 days. It will be suggested to take 30 minutes at least for each fact sheet.
Intervention: PNE-read group (Behavioral)
TAU group
Participants allocated into this group will maintain treatment as usual (TAU) and will follow the recommendations by their usual health professional.
Intervention: TAU group (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Pain Revolution Quiz
Time Frame: Through study completion, an average of 1 week]
The Pain Revolution Quiz comprises two main sections: one first section related to the acquired knowledge after the fact sheets and the second section incorporates 4 questions with feedback about the learning process. The first section encompasses 26 items which are used to measure acquired knowledge by the subjects after being provided the 9 fact sheets content. The 26 items are answered on multicomponent choices of three possible alternatives: true, false and I don't know. Total scores can range from 0 to 26. Some of the items respond to reverse score, such as 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 20, 22, 25, 26. This tool has been recently developed by Pain Revolution, a pain educator network founded by Professor Lorimer Moseley, group leader in Body in Mind Research Group from University of South Australia. The adequate internal consistency and acceptable test-retest reliability is currently being studied. In the same manner, the Spanish version is evaluated for first time in the present study.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported