Treating Pain With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Trial
CompletedNot applicableNCT03666455
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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)
The long-term goal is to define best practices for diminishing the risk of high opioid doses used to treat chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) patients while optimizing pain outcomes and functional levels of activity, emotional functioning, and quality of life. The short-term goal is to assess the feasibility of multiple Clinical and Translational Research Award (CTSA) sites working together to perform and study the effects of a cognitive behavioral therapy intervention in a future randomized controlled trial (RCT) among CNCP patients in rural primary care practices in each CTSA state.
Study details
- Official title
- Treating Pain With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Trial
- Conditions
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Chronic Pain
- Opioid Use
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- University of New Mexico
- Collaborators
- University of Kansas Medical Center; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Kentucky
- Start date
- 2019-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2020-03-23
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 21 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 4
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients (21-65 years of age). * Has a diagnosis of CNCP (\> 3 months). We will limit the diagnostic inclusion criteria to the most common pain diagnoses (excluding headache): low back, multi-site/full body (e.g., fibromyalgia, and various kinds of arthritis), neck, lower extremity, and abdomen. * Being prescribed chronic opioid medications for the pain. * Mentally and physically able to participate in data collection (namely, completing an extensive survey at three points in time, attending 8 one-hour therapy sessions, and participating in an interview by the research staff). Exclusion Criteria: * Children under the age of 21 will be excluded from participating because this study is examining ACT in adults with CNCP. Pregnant women will be excluded because their use of opioids presents a special therapeutic circumstance out of the scope of this study. People who are not fluent in English will be excluded because this is a small feasibility study and we do not have the resources to conduct the intervention or collect data in other languages.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03666455