The Effectiveness of Individual Placement and Support in Chronic Pain Patients
CompletedNot applicableNCT02697656
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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)
Individual Placement and support (IPS) is an evidence-based approach originally developed to help people with severe mental disorders to obtain and maintain employment. The effectiveness of IPS for patients with severe mental illness is well documented, but has never previously been tested for patients with chronic pain. In fact, employment support is rarely provided in pain clinics, despite an increasing focus on integrating work and health in all patient treatment (OECD, 2013). The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of IPS as an integrated part of the interdisciplinary treatment for patients with chronic pain in a hospital outpatient clinic.
Study details
- Official title
- A Randomized Controlled Trial Assessing the Effectiveness of the Individual Placement and Support Model for Patients With Chronic Pain in an Outpatient Hospital Pain Clinic
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: IPS
- Behavioral: Self-help
- Behavioral: Treatment as usual
- Sponsor
- Oslo University Hospital
- Collaborators
- Norwegian Directorate of Health; Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration
- Start date
- 2015-11
- Primary completion
- 2020-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Norway
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients referred to the pain clinic and eligible for interdisciplinary treatment * Not currently working (long-term sick leave, disability pension or unemployed) * Expressed desire to work Exclusion Criteria: * Living too far away from the pain clinic (outside of Oslo)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02697656