The Predictors and Patient Versus Parental Perceptions of Health-Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Chronic Pain

Completed

• Conditions: Pediatric Chronic Pain

• Registration Number: NCT00885976
• Lead Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham

Brief Summary

This study is intended to provide additional insight into the factors affecting health-related quality of life with pediatric chronic pain as perceived by the patient versus his or her parents.In doing so, additional insight into the subjective interpretation the pediatric chronic pain experience will be gained. The four objectives of this study will be (a) to examine further the relationship between patient self-reported health-related quality of life and parent proxy-reported health-related quality; (b) to identify what biological, psychological, and/or social factors are the strongest predictors of a pediatric chronic pain patient's self-reported pain intensity and self-reported health-related quality of life, in a diverse cohort of patients referred to and subsequently treated by an anesthesiology-based yet interdisciplinary pediatric chronic pain medicine program; (c) to assess the effect of patient-specific, pain-focused biopsychosocial treatment regimen on pain intensity and health-related quality of life; and (d) to determine the effect of patient/parental satisfaction with on-going health care on their compliance with and uptake of the pain treatment regimen.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2009-04-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-04-21
• Study First Posted: 2009-04-22
• Study Start: 2011-09
• Primary Completion: 2012-02
• Study Completion: 2012-02
• Status Verified: 2013-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-06-25
• Last Update Posted: 2013-06-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 99

Inclusion Criteria

• outpatients ranging between 8 years and 18 years of age directly referral from either their primary care physician or another specialist physician

Exclusion Criteria

• patients in whose biologic families English is not the primary, native language
• patients suffering from severe cognitive dysfunction (i.e., mental retardation)
• patients with a life-expectancy of less than three months at the time of initial clinical evaluation

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Heath-related quality of life	Baseline at time of initial outpatient clinic visit	PedsQLTM 4.0 and 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey Version 2 (SF-36v2)
Pain intensity and functional disability	Baseline at the time of initial outpatient clinic visit	Pediatric Pain Questionnaire (PPQ) and Functional Disability Inventory (FDI)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

The Pediatric Chronic Pain Medicine Program at Children's Hospital; 🇺🇸 Birmingham, Alabama, United States