Dyadic Pain Management Program for Older Adults and Informal Caregivers With Chronic Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT04106271
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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)
Chronic pain is a common health problem among older adults and their informal caregivers. Chronic pain has negative effects on physical and psychological health status and it is a strong predictor of poor quality of life. In this study, a dyadic face-to-face pain management program will be provided to older adults and informal caregivers to help the dyads equip with pain-related knowledge and pain coping skills. The effectiveness of the dyadic program will be assessed. Participants will be recruited follow snowball sampling and will be randomly allocated to experimental group and control group using 1: 1 radio. The dyadic pain management program will last four weeks, including group discussion, pain-related knowledge and physical exercises. Pain intensity, anxiety, depression, stress, pain self-efficacy and quality of life will be measured in baseline, post-treatment and at one-month follow. Acceptability and satisfaction to the program will be collected. This study will be held in Caritas District Elderly Centre-Yeun Long (Tin Chak Centre) and Caritas Cheng Shing Fung District Elderly Center (Shamshuipo) in Hong Kong. For sample size, no suitable standard deviation and effect size was found in previous similar study through the literature review, so this study will be a pilot RCT study with a total 60 dyads of sample size. 30 older adults and 30 informal caregivers will be in each group (experimental group and control group). The dyadic pain management program will be held in the community activity center at weekends and will involve three parts: demographic data, outcome measures (baseline, post-treatment and one-month follow-up measures) and pain education. Potential participants' eligibility will be confirmed by a questionnaire designed according to inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria. An information sheet will be provided to the eligible dyads and informed consent will be signed on the scene. Experimental group will start pain management program when fini…
Study details
- Official title
- The Effectiveness of a Dyadic Pain Management Program for Older People and Informal Caregivers With Chronic Pain: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: dyadic pain management program
- Sponsor
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Start date
- 2019-06-28
- Primary completion
- 2022-06-28
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 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: For Older adults: 1. Aged 65 or above; 2. Have an informal caregiver willing to participate this program; 3. Can understand Chinese; 4. Have a history of non-cancer pain in past 6 months; 5. Pain score should be at least 2 measured by Numeric Rating Scale, a 11-point numeric scale; 6. Have behavioral abilities to do a light exercise and stretch program; 7. Able to attend the whole sessions in community activity center. For Informal caregivers: 1. Aged 18 or above; 2. As an informal caregiver for one older adult; 3. Can understand Chinese; 4. Have a history of non-cancer pain in past 6 months; 5. Pain score should be at least 2 measured by Numeric Rating Scale, a 11-point numeric scale; 6. Own a smartphone and can assess the internet; 7. Able to attend the whole sessions in community activity center. Exclusion Criteria: For Older adults: 1. Have serious organic disease or malignant tumor; 2. Have a history of consciousness or mental disorder diagnosed by neurologists or psychiatrists; 3. Have a further medical/surgical treatment in two months or have joined in other pain management program. 4. Experience a drug addiction problem. For Informal caregivers: 1. Have serious organic disease or malignant tumor; 2. Have a history of consciousness or mental disorder diagnosed by neurologists or psychiatrists; 3. Have a further medical/surgical treatment in two months or have joined in other pain management program. 4. Experience a drug addiction problem.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04106271