Chronic Pain and Social Vulnerability: Prevalence and Predictive Factors of the Social Vulnerability in Evaluation and Treatment of the Pain Center (CETD)
Unknown statusNCT02171936
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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)
In the care of the chronic pain in pain's department, pain consultation or Evaluation and Treatment of the Pain Center (CETD), the patients are often in a situation of physical and psychic suffering which requires a multidisciplinary follow-up. So, 19 percent of the chronic painful patients lost their employment, are "disintegrated" because of their pain, this being able to provocate a loss of their financial autonomy. A large number of painful patients thus find themselves in situations of social vulnerability even of precariousness often denied and difficult to detect by the caring team. Precarity is define as " the lack of one or several securities, in particular the employment, allowing the people and the families to assume their professional, family or social obligations, and to enjoy their fundamental rights." To allow a earlier identification of the populations in deprivation situation, the questionnaire EPICES (Evaluation of the Precariousness and the Disparities of health for the Centers of Examination of Health (CES)) was administered to more than 7000 people. The individual score, indicator of the precariousness and the disparities of health, is calculated after answer to 11 questions and was calculated on about 200 000 French people. Among numerous indicators, it appears that the consumption of psychotropics or a negative perception of the health are socioeconomic indicators, mode of life and health which are prevailing according to the quintiles of the score EPICES. This national study, on the French CETD aims is: 1 - to study prevalence of the social vulnerability even of the precariousness thanks to adapted questionnaires of which the questionnaire EPICES, 2 - to identify predictive social-economic factors which generate and amplify this circumstance, 3 - to identify the patients for whom a situation of precariousness and social vulnerability is proved true, justifying the earlier orientation towards the social worker of the Center so allowing a "glob…
Study details
- Official title
- Chronic Pain and Social Vulnerability: Prevalence and Predictive Factors of the Social Vulnerability in Evaluation and Treatment of the Pain Center (CETD)
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Questionnaire EPICES (Evaluation of the Precariousness and the Disparities of Health for the Centers of Examination of Health).
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
- Start date
- 2014-05
- Primary completion
- 2016-04
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- to 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- France
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patient follow-up in a CETD, Patient of more than 18 years old, Patient having a sufficient cooperation and an understanding to conform to the imperatives of the study, Patient agreeing to give a written consent, Patient member in the social security system French. Exclusion Criteria: * Old Patient under age 18, Patient with cooperation and understanding not allowing conforming in a strict way to the conditions and to the tests planned by the protocol, Patient benefiting from a legal protective measure (guardianship, supervision) Unaffiliated patient in the social security system French
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02171936