The Maintaining Musculoskeletal Health Study
CompletedNot applicableNCT02668003
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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)
It is known from many studies that when patients have developed chronic widespread pain (CWP) or fibromyalgia that managing such symptoms is extremely challenging for both doctors and patients. The investigators have shown in a recently completed study funded by Arthritis Research UK that a course of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy delivered by telephone (tCBT) or an exercise regime can substantially improve the chances of the symptoms improving. The investigators now plan to offer this therapy to patients who are at a high risk of developing CWP (but who have not developed it yet) to see whether its onset can be prevented.
Study details
- Official title
- The MAintaining MusculOskeleTal Health (MAmMOTH) Study
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- University of Aberdeen
- Start date
- 2016-05
- Primary completion
- 2019-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 25 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Total sites listed
- 3
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * A 'high-risk' profile for developing CWP as identified on the screening survey, i.e.: * Have pain for which the patient has sought consultation to primary care in the last 6 months * Any 2 of the following: Illness Behaviour Score \> 4; Somatic Symptom Score \> 2; Sleep Problem Score \> 4 * Access to a land-line telephone or mobile telephone * Ability to understand English sufficiently to participate in the intervention * Ability to give informed consent * Aged 25 years or over Exclusion Criteria: * Meeting American College of Rheumatology definition of CWP in the 1990 criteria for fibromyalgia (as assessed by the screening questionnaire) * Medical conditions which would make the proposed intervention unsuitable (e.g. cognitive ability)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02668003