Single Session Pain Psychology Treatment: Comparative Efficacy & Mechanisms
CompletedNot applicableNCT03167086
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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)
This study aims to compare the efficacy of a single session psychological treatment, "Empowered Relief" (ER), with the current standard of care, group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) specifically on individuals with chronic low back pain who have pain-specific distress as indexed by pain catastrophizing scores.
Study details
- Official title
- "Empowered Relief" Single Session Pain Psychology Treatment: Comparative Efficacy & Mechanisms
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: "Empowered Relief" (ER)
- Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Behavioral: Health Education (HE)
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
- Start date
- 2017-06-08
- Primary completion
- 2020-06-25
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Axial low back pain without radicular symptoms * Pain duration ≥ 6 months (per recent NIH Task Force on Research Standards for Chronic Low Back Pain based on participant self-report * Average pain intensity ≥4/10 for the past month at screening visit * English fluency * Males and females 18-70 years of age * Pain Catastrophizing Score (PCS) ≥20 Exclusion Criteria: * Gross cognitive impairment * Active suicidal ideation or severe depression * Previous attendance in the active treatment groups (any ER classes ever taken or CBT in the past 3 years) * Participating in any interventional research study or completed participation in the last 2 months; enrollment in an observational study is acceptable * Current substance abuse * Clear likelihood to disrupt fellow class participants (e.g., personality disorder) at the discretion of the study team
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03167086