Psychological Treatment Targeting Acceptance and Compassion in Chronic Pain Patients
CompletedNot applicableNCT03504904
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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 trial is a randomized controlled study aiming to investigate the effect of an 8-week internet-based intervention focused on acceptance and compassion or a wait-list control group. Primary treatments outcomes are Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ), Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and Pain Disability index (PDI). Secondary outcomes were Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS-S), Anxiety sensitivity index (ASI), Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI), Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) and Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire (PTQ). A six month follow-up was conducted. Findings showed significantly greater levels of acceptance (CPAQ), self-compassion (SCS) and reduction in activity limitation (PDI) measured with the primary outcomes for the treatment group after the intervention with effect sizes raging from small to moderate and these results were maintained at six-month follow-up.
Study details
- Official title
- Psychological Treatment Targeting Acceptance and Compassion in Chronic Pain Patients: a Randomized Controlled, Internet Delivered, Treatment Trial.
- Conditions
- Chronic Pain
- Self-Criticism
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Internet-Delivered ACT and CFT
- Sponsor
- Uppsala University
- Collaborators
- Uppsala University Hospital; Örebro University, Sweden; Karlstad University
- Start date
- 2014-11-13
- Primary completion
- 2016-01-23
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Sweden
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * have experienced pain for more than three months, * have been medically investigated (within the past year) * be at least 18 years of age * have regular access to a computer and the internet * reported self-criticism measured with the Self-Compassion Scale. Exclusion Criteria: * planned surgery * ongoing medical investigation that could impede participation in the study, * suffering from acute physical or psychological conditions, * very severe symptoms of depression (i.e., defined as a score of \>2 on item 9 on MADRS-S and information from telephone screening) * ongoing psychological treatment, * not being fluent with the Swedish language since all the material would be in Swedish.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03504904