Pain Assessment in Children Undergoing Spine Surgery
CompletedNot applicableNCT04244760
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Brief summary (from the registry)
Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain is one of the most common types of pain among children and adolescents. Recurring episodes of MSK pain conditions have a major impact on the daily lives. Children and adolescents with neuromuscular diseases are often unable to report the pain the patients experience because of intellectual and/or physical limitations. There is no reason to believe that pain is any less frequent or intense in these patients than in normally developing patients. Because of the elusive nature of pain in non-verbal children, therapeutic decisions are frequently based on vague proxy measures of pain and revert to a series of trials and errors. This project creates a unique opportunity to directly characterize and compare MSK and surgical pain subjectively in two different patient samples (verbal and non-verbal). The ultimate goal is to use this information to offer the highest quality of pain control in children with MSK conditions, and more specifically in children with limited communication skills unable to communicate their distress associated with the surgical procedural.
Study details
- Official title
- Peri-operative Pain Assessment in Children Undergoing Orthopaedic Surgery
- Conditions
- Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
- Cerebral Palsy
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Pain assessment for verbal patients
- Behavioral: Pain assessment for non-verbal patients
- Sponsor
- Catherine Ferland
- Organization
- Shriners Hospitals for Children
- Start date
- 2015-01
- Primary completion
- 2022-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 10 Years to 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Canada
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Aged between 10 and 21 years old * Scheduled to undergo posterior or anterior spinal fusion surgery for AIS with instrumentation * Ability to adequately understand and respond to outcome measures * No previous major orthopedic surgery * Female or male * Any ethnic background Exclusion Criteria: * Inability of the child to speak English or French * Diagnosed with developmental delay that would interfere with understanding questions being asked (autism, mental retardation) * Children with major chronic medical conditions (ASA status III or higher)
Canadian sites (1)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04244760