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Guided Self-determination in the Treatment of Chronic Pain to Promote the Life Skills of the Patient

CompletedNot applicableNCT02084459
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.

Brief summary (from the registry)

The purpose of this randomized study is to find out whether using the Danish-developed nursing intervention guided self-determination (GSD) can improve life skills of the chronic pain patient. The hypothesis is "using guided self-determination in the treatment of chronic pain patients will increase the life skills of the patients and thus their life quality in spite of pain".

Study details

Official title
The Use of Guided Self-determination in the Treatment of Chronic Pain Patients Will Increase Life Skills and Thereby Life Quality of the Chronic Pain Patient
Conditions
Interventions
  • Behavioral: Autonomy-supportive counselling (GSD)
Sponsor
Herlev Hospital
Collaborators
Naestved Hospital; Zealand University Hospital
Start date
2013-02
Primary completion
2016-07-15
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Results posted
No results posted in this snapshot
Countries
Denmark
Total sites listed
1

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years and older, diagnosed with nonmalignant chronic pain Exclusion Criteria: * patients who do not read, write and understand the Danish language * patients with a known medical abuse * patients needing special psychological and/or psychiatric intervention * patients with health-related problems preventing them from participating in a group

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02084459