Case Series Evaluation of Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy in Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03658226
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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)
Many people in the world have chronic pain; this is pain which lasts more than twelve weeks. Pain can cause people to feel low in mood and change how they feel about themselves and others around them. Therapy for chronic pain does not always work and often people do not have lasting effects from treatment. This study hopes to see if a different therapy, called Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT), can help people with chronic pain. This therapy looks at how we see ourselves and our relationships with others; it aims to help people address personal problems that make it difficult for them to manage their pain. The study aims to show that PIT is a suitable treatment for chronic low back pain and that people will have fewer problems with their mood, how they feel about themselves and their relationships. This study will give people with chronic low back pain eight sessions of PIT and during therapy they will fill in forms about their pain, mood, relationship problems and how they feel about themselves. We will also look at practical things to do with the therapy (e.g. how many sessions people came to, reasons for stopping therapy etc.) and ask people about how they felt about the therapy they had. Three months after the study has finished, people will be asked to fill in the forms again to see if the effects have lasted. This research could help to give people with chronic pain a new and different treatment option which has good and lasting effects.
Study details
- Official title
- A Case Series Evaluation of Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT) in Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) Patients
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT)
- Sponsor
- Charlotte Morgan
- Organization
- University of Manchester
- Start date
- 2018-09-19
- Primary completion
- 2019-03-29
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Previously attended the Walton Centre pain management programme (PMP). * Treatment resistant; six months after PMP treatment still experiencing clinically significant pain measured as 5+ on the pain distress rating scale. IMMPACT recommendations advise the use of numerical rating scales (NRS) in clinical trials of chronic pain treatments (Dworkin et al., 2005). * Classified as "interpersonally distressed" on the West Haven Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHYMPI). * Able to converse in English proficiently which is a requirement given the conversational nature of therapy. * Able to commit to treatment and willing to be randomly allocated to baseline. Exclusion Criteria: * Other comorbid degenerative conditions and cancers. * Psychosis * History of prior suicide attempts. * Active plans of self-harm and/or suicide.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03658226