Living Everyday Above-and-beyond Pain Research (LEAP): A Pilot Study Evaluating a Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Group Therapy in a Primary Care Setting
试验速览
- 阶段
- 3 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Quality of Life
研究概览
简要总结
The investigators will evaluate the effectiveness of "Living Everyday Above-and-beyond Pain" (LEAP) program in the primary care setting. LEAP is a multidisciplinary chronic pain group therapy developed for the two clinic sites of McMaster Family Health Team: McMaster Family Practice and Stonechurch Family Health Centre. LEAP aims to improve patients'quality of life, interaction with the health care system and their health care utilization. This is a pilot study to evaluate mainly feasibility. The investigators will make use of both experimental and qualitative methods gather evidence of the programs success, strengths and weaknesses.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •18 years and older
- •diagnosed with chronic pain
排除标准
- •chronic pain related to cancer, pelvic pain or headache
- •inability to speak or write in English
- •patient is unable to attend and participate in group treatment sessions on their own
- •substance use or mental health problems of a severity making group treatment participation impossible
- •currently participating in another cognitive-behavioral pain management program
- •patient is receiving palliative care or has been diagnosed with an illness expecting to cause death within one year
研究组 & 干预措施
Early Intervention Group
干预措施: Living Everyday Above-and-beyond Pain (LEAP) (Behavioral)
Delayed Intervention Group
Initially wait-listed and served as control group. But later participants underwent the experimental intervention.
干预措施: Wait-listed (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Quality of Life
时间窗: 8 months
This will utilize the SF-36 QOL questionnaire.
Health care utilization
时间窗: 8 months
This will be based on a chart review to assess the number of consultations with their family physician and other clinicians (Nurse practitioners, registered nurse, dietitian, social worker).
次要结局
- Qualitative process evaluation (Perceptions of participants regarding the intervention)(16 months)
- Pain medication use(8 months)