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Cohort of Chronic Pain Patients

Recruiting
Conditions
Chronic Pain
Registration Number
NCT04880096
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Brief Summary

Chronic pain affects approximately 20% of adults, 50% of the elderly population and over 1.5 billion people worldwide. Societal and economic issues are also crucial, as 60% of people with pain are less able or unable to work and 20% say they have lost their jobs because of pain. The overall cost of chronic pain is estimated at around 300 billion euros in the EU. Unfortunately, current treatments for chronic pain have limited effectiveness and important adverse effects. Pain clinics, which support the most complex and refractory cases of chronic pain, as well as general practitioners and patients expect improvements, both in terms of therapeutic efficacy and organization of care.

In order to allow the characterization and a personalized follow-up of chronic pain patients, we have created e-DOL, a smartphone application for patients and a web platform for healthcare professionals in pain clinics. The purpose of this study is to create an e-cohort for the research, and characterization and follow-up of chronic pain patients.

Detailed Description

This first French e-cohort of chronic pain patients will allow real-life follow-up in order to generate big data including various information on chronic pain, associated-comorbidities, pain impacts on sleep, activity and psycho-emotional parameters, sociodemographic characteristics and pain treatments.

These data will be collected with he eDOL tool (smartphone application for patients and web platform for caregivers in pain clinics), integrating numerous repeatable questionnaires, weekly barometers, a therapeutic education module and a conversational agent (chat bot).

All of these data will also be linked with French health insurance care data in order to get an overview of comorbidities and patient care consumption in a medico-economic approach.

The study will include 20 pain clinics and a minimum of 5000 patients followed for 24 months.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
5000
Inclusion Criteria
  • All patients with chronic pain
  • patients equipped and regular users of a smartphone
  • Non-opposition to participation in the study
Exclusion Criteria
  • Patient unable to understand or answer questionnaires

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
multidimensional characterisation of chronic pain patients5 years

Multimodal exploratory analysis of the determinants and repercussions of chronic pain, and their evolution in a real-life context, taking into account all environmental events likely to influence chronic pain (treatments, history, co-morbidities, etc.).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Longitudinal analyses5 years

Describe the distribution and temporal evolution of the measured variables

Multivariate descriptive analyses5 years

Study the relationships between the measured criteria

Trial Locations

Locations (22)

CHU de Clermont-Ferrand - Service de Neurologie

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Clermont-Ferrand, Aura, France

Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital

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Clermont-Ferrand, Aura, France

APHP Ambroise Paré

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Boulogne-Billancourt, IDF, France

APHP Saint Antoine

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Paris, IDF, France

APHP Cochin

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Paris, IDF, France

Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph

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Paris, IDf, France

CHU Amiens

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Amiens, France

CH Bayeux

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Bayeux, France

CHU bordeaux

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Bordeaux, France

Hospices civils Lyon

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Bron, France

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CHU de Clermont-Ferrand - Service de Neurologie
🇫🇷Clermont-Ferrand, Aura, France
Xavier MOISSET
Principal Investigator

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