The Pain & Stress Interview Study for People With Chronic Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04498663
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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 goal of the study is to determine whether a brief, therapeutic interview can help patients improve their pain and health by addressing psychological issues that are known to drive chronic musculoskeletal pain. This randomized, controlled trial tests the efficacy of a brief, one-session therapeutic interview for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain and histories of childhood adversity. Adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain will be randomized to either a therapeutic interview condition or a waitlist control condition. The therapeutic interview will be 90-minute session during which participants will be encouraged to disclose stressful experiences, express important emotions, and identify connections between their life stress and their pain, which we hope will increase their psychological attributions for pain and reduce their pain, interpersonal problems, and psychological distress. The study will compare the therapeutic interview condition to a delayed interview condition and will follow patients for 6 weeks to identify changes in response to the interview. Participants in the therapeutic interview condition are expected to show more improvement on pain severity, pain interference, psychological distress, interpersonal function, and psychological attitudes toward pain at follow-up, relative to participants in the delayed interview condition.
Study details
- Official title
- Emotion- and Relationship-Focused Therapeutic Interview for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Randomized Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Emotion- and Relationship-Focused Therapeutic Interview
- Sponsor
- Mark A. Lumley
- Organization
- Wayne State University
- Start date
- 2020-09-10
- Primary completion
- 2021-06-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * a chronic primary musculoskeletal pain condition * significant history of childhood adversity (score of 3 or higher on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Scale. Exclusion Criteria: * current psychotic disorder * unable communicate in English * unable to read * surgery scheduled within 2 months
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04498663