The Effectiveness of an Electronic Pain Management Programme (ePain) for Working Population With Chronic Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT03718702
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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)
Pain in commonly found in working population. The working population who aged from 15 to 64 is the largest portion of population in Hong Kong. Also, the prevalence of chronic pain in this population group is high. The issue requires special attention. Researches demonstrated pain affects a person in a multidimensional way. Pain induces negative effects to both the physical and psychological aspects. The levels of depression, anxiety, stress are increased and quality of life is decreased in people with chronic pain. They are interrelated to pain. As pain induced discomforts, people adopted self-initiated treatments as treatment. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management interventions are commonly used. Although people used different ways to relieve the pain, they tend to bear the pain to work or take sick leave. This contributes to the work loss to the whole society. Pain service in Hong Kong is scarce in the public and private sectors. It takes months for a pain sufferer to be arranged for a pain clinic follow-up. It is possible for the pain get worsen while waiting for the pain service. The pain can be difficult to treat afterwards. As self-initiated treatments are welcomed by the pain sufferers, pain education can be focused on empowering the pain sufferers on their pain knowledge and self-management techniques. The pain self-efficacy can be enhanced. The pain sufferers can be benefited from lowering the pain intensity and negative emotions. It can be a solution to develop an online pain management programme to ease the service demand. Limited studies are found for online pain management programmes to improve the pain self-efficacy and self-management techniques. In order to fill the knowledge gap and service gap, the present study aims to evaluate an online pain management programme (ePain) in improving the self-efficacy, reduction of pain intensity, decreased levels of depression, anxiety and stress, and improving quality of life in pain management…
Study details
- Official title
- The Effectiveness of an Electronic Pain Management Programme (ePain) for Working Population With Chronic Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: ePain
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Start date
- 2018-11-01
- Primary completion
- 2022-04-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 15 Years to 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Hong Kong
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Adults aged 15 to 65; * Performed a formal job during the seven days before the intervention or worked for pay or profit during the seven days before the intervention; * Able to read and understand traditional Chinese; * With non-cancer chronic pain for at least three months; * With pain scored one or above in the numeric rating scale from zero to ten in the Chinese version of Brief Pain Inventory (BPI-C) Exclusion Criteria: * Adults aged 15 below or above 65; * Not performed any formal jobs for pay or profit during the seven days before the intervention; * With cancer pain or non-cancer acute pain for less than 3 months.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03718702