Sleep, Pain and Stress in Adolescents With Persistent Pain
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Recruiting
- Enrollment
- 20
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Sleep quality
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The main aim is the gain information of sleep structures in adolescents with persistent pain. Also to study simple interventions to support their sleep and pain management. The main aim of this study is to test the efficacy and feasibility of suggestive presleep relaxation technique in improving sleep quality and sleep-related emotional memory processing.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Crossover
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 15 Years to 17 Years (Child)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients aged 15-17 years with persistent (> 3months) pain reporting average pain intensity over 3/10 on the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS).
Exclusion Criteria
- •ongoing medication for sleep or pain.
Arms & Interventions
neutral story
Neutral story before the sleep onset
Intervention: Neutral story (Behavioral)
suggestive story
Suggestive story to find out the effect of relaxation to sleep structures.
Intervention: suggestive relaxation (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Sleep quality
Time Frame: one night
The overnight PSG (Somnomedics) is used to measure sleep during two nights (Somnomedics, Somnoscreen plus HD), with the following recorded parameters: electroencephalography (left and right for F, C, O); left and right eletrooculogram; left and right electromyogram; electrocardiogram. Sleep recordings are done with portable devices so that the patients will sleep at their home during the recordings.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Reetta Sipilä
Head of research
Helsinki University Central Hospital