Family Nursing Conversations Patients With Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03981302
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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 assumes that family nursing will enhance the management of chronic nonmalignant pain (CNP) for the patients and their family members. CNP accounts for a major healthcare problem with a thorough impact on several levels. Living with CNP is a condition of life, that calls for acceptance, but due to the invisible nature of CNP, the patients often experience a lack of understanding and doubt about the condition´s reality making acceptance challenging. Research indicates that the involvement of relatives has a positive effect on the management of CNP. An existential need for individualised adapted involvement is expressed by patients and relatives. Family nursing has the potential to comply with the expressed need but is not investigated on patients with CNP. The objective of the study is to explore if an intervention with systematic family nursing conversations with patients with chronic nonmalignant pain and their selected family members is effective on primary self-efficacy and secondary family function, quality of life and anxiety/depression. The intervention is based on the concept of "family systems nursing" developed by Wright and Leahey. Besides usual treatment, the intervention consists of 3-4 structured conversations each 1,5 hour between the nurse, the patient and their selected family members. Previous to the intervention, the involved nurses will go through a family nursing course of three days duration. During the intervention, regular reflection sessions will be conducted. The study design is quasi-experimental with a baseline- and a post-test in two comparable groups of patients and their selected family members: An intervention group and a control group. The design is chosen to prevent contamination of the control group data if the nurses change behaviour regarding families after participating in the course. Collection of data from the control group will be completed before the course. In the intervention group, a follow-up assessment will be …
Study details
- Official title
- Family Nursing Conversations With Patients With Chronic Non-cancer Pain and Their Selected Family Members. Protocol for the FANCOC-PAIN Quasi-experimental Trial
- Conditions
- Chronic Nonmalignant Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Family nursing conversations
- Sponsor
- Bente Appel Esbensen
- Collaborators
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet; University of Copenhagen
- Organization
- Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen
- Start date
- 2019-06-10
- Primary completion
- 2023-01-31
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 15 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Denmark
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients who start a trajectory at the Multidisciplinary Paincentre at Rigshospitalet. * Every patient selects a maximum of three family member at the age of 15 years or older, whom the patient from a comprehensive understanding perceive as a family Exclusion Criteria: * Patients or family members, who already receive family therapy with each other. * Patients or family members, who are cognitively impaired. * Patients or family members or dont speak or understand Danish.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03981302