Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents.

Completed

• Conditions: Pain, Chronic
• Interventions: Other: questionnaires and psychological testing

• Registration Number: NCT02547415
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Brief Summary

Medically unexplained chronic pain - without identifiable somatic origin - is yet an insufficiently known and explored field in children and adolescents by international clinical works. This research aims to characterize somatic, psychological, psychopathological and environmental (particularly attachment styles and family functioning) processes trough an observational study with three pain management centers.

The study concerns children and adolescents from 7 to 17 years old, suffering of medically unexplained chronic pain and their parents who are referred to a pain center. It is composed of a somatic, psychological and family functioning assessment on the one hand and psychopathological and attachment evaluation on the other hand.

Detailed Description

Participation in the study involves an additional visit to 1 day pain center to answer questionnaires about anxiety, family environment, depression and psychological testing

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-01-22
• Study First Submitted: 2015-09-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-09-09
• Study First Posted: 2015-09-11
• Primary Completion: 2018-01-10
• Study Completion: 2018-01-10
• Status Verified: 2021-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-14
• Last Update Posted: 2021-09-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Children and adolescent with chronic pain no proven medical cause, type of painful somatic complaints within the scope of one of the following diagnoses to ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) and DSM-IV and DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to somatoform disorders, distinguishing between :

  • pain disorder
  • somatoform disorder
  • undifferentiated somatoform disorder

• Addressed to the pain centers or in pediatric chronic pain services hosting children.

• being fluently French-speaking and French-reading

Exclusion Criteria

presence of current or past organic pathology including migraines and epilepsy, which may interfere with somatic expression of studied disorder

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
patients with questionnaires and psychological testing	questionnaires and psychological testing	children and adolescents with chronic pain without proven medical cause, type painful somatic complaints

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Explanatory factors for pain	1 month	Environmental, familial, personal factors in children with chronic pain

Trial Locations

Locations (4)

Hopital TROUSSEAU; 🇫🇷 Paris, France

Hopital NECKER; 🇫🇷 Paris, France

CHU de SAINT-ETIENNE; 🇫🇷 Saint-etienne, France

Hospices Civils de LYON; 🇫🇷 Bron, France