Active clinical trials for "Chronic Pain"

There is no doubt, that surgery is very often the beginning of a chronic pain disorder. C-section is a worldwide performed operation with increasing trend in the developed countries .This prospective cohort study evaluated the incidence of persistent pain after childbirth in respect of the pain status before childbirth and the modus of delivery.

The Harnessing Online Peer Education (HOPE) intervention combines social media with a psychology-based interventions to change behavior. This intervention is being applied to reduce prescription drug abuse among patients with chronic pain.

The present study is a multicenter, explorative, qualitative study. The primary endpoint of this study is to evaluate to which extent the collection of data with regard to pain caused by illness or treatment can be optimized using health technology solutions. For this evaluation semi-structured qualitative interviews with 8-10 patients will be conducted. Secondary variables are the evaluation of the patients' pain experience and the general patients' willingness to collect data with regard to pain by using technological devices themselves or with support of healthcare professionals.

This study is designed to evaluate the frequency and presentations of chronic persistent pain in patients after breast cancer surgery at our tertiary care hospital. Results of this study will help us to understand the magnitude of problem in our population and making institutional guidelines for appropriate management of such patients.

Post-intensive care syndrome is an entity of cognitive, physical and mental health disorders occurring and persisting after ICU discharge and responsible of disabilities and decrease of quality of life. Nowadays mental and cognitive health impairments appear to be well known but few data are available about chronic pain after a critical care illness. The aim of the study is to determine the incidence and the risks factors of chronic pain after ICU.

This observational study documented outcomes resulting from qigong practice as a complementary self-care practice. All subjects continued with their usual medical care. Recruitment was passive, and participants consisted of those who encountered the practice as part of an earlier clinical trial, or entered the program prior to the observational period (posted information, word-of-mouth), or entered during the observational period (posted information).

Chronic pain in general is a substantial problem and is a source of a great deal of disability and suffering. It is known that processes like stigma and psychological flexibility (PF) play a significant role in these outcomes. At the same time, there are many specific chronic pain disorders and there is less knowledge about similarities and differences between these specific conditions, whether the role of processes like these vary between conditions or not. For studies that can address this to be done in Sweden, there will need to be adequately translated and validated measures of the key processes identified. The main aim of the current study is to look at whether the role of PF and stigma in pain-related outcomes differ across pain conditions. In support of that, a secondary aim is to first validate measures of stigma and PF in chronic pain populations. For this secondary aim, the current study seeks to investigate the factor structure, construct - and criterion validity, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability of a Swedish version of the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI) as well as of a Swedish version of the Stigma Scale for Chronic Illnesses (SSCI-8).

More than six million French were affected by SARS-COV2 epidemic. About 20% of infected peoples were hospitalized, and about 5% were admitted to the intensive care units (ICU) for severe SARS-COV2 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) management. A spectrum of neuropsychiatric sequelae, specific for the ICU exposure, was already described, including post-intensive care syndrome and persistent pain. A growing body of evidence suggests the impact of SARS-COV2 exposure on the occurrence of neurological disorders and chronic pain syndrome development in COVID-19 patients. Taking together, one can expect a large number of patients discharged from ICU after severe COVID-19 with high prevalence of persistent pain and psychological disorders. To date, no study has evaluated neither the incidence of persistant pains in ICU COVID-19 survivors, nor pain phenotypes. The knowledge of such data is crucial in order to anticipate the management of such patients by specialized pain team, and to quantify the possible incurred burden of care. Our study aims to evaluate the incidence of pain, pain localization and severity, associated pain-related psychological disorders, and to perform quantitative sensory testing in severe COVID-19 patients, admitted to the ICU for more than 48 hours and successfully discharged home during the first French pandemic wave.

This study aims to estimate prevalence and determine risk factors for chronic pain at 3 months post-operative in pediatric surgery.

Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a chronic disorder with significant symptoms of urinary urgency, frequency and pelvic pain. IC is more prevalent in women than men. Similar to other chronic pain syndromes such such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and fibromyalgia, the cause of IC is not fully understood. Two subtypes of IC have been identified: classic IC (ulcerative IC) where visible ulcers exist in the bladder and non ulcerative IC, where bladder abnormalities are not apparent but significant bladder-related symptoms exist. We hypothesize that ulcerative IC is a disease of the bladder whereas non ulcerative IC is a more generalized and centrally-mediated chronic pain syndrome similar to IBS and fibromyalgia. To test this hypothesis, we will compare the presence of pain conditions/symptoms in ulcerative vs. non ulcerative IC women vs. community dwelling women (controls) without an IC diagnosis.