Can Patient Expectations Influence Pain Reduction After Epidural Injections in Patients With Low Back Pain?
Unknown statusNCT05402631
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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)
Investigators hypothesize that patients with higher expectations regarding their epidural injection experience a higher pain reduction of their lower back pain and/or leg pain after an epidural injection. Patients' expectations of an epidural injection can influence their level of pain reduction. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the prognostic significance of patient expectations on pain reduction after epidural injections ('expected benefits', see under) in patients with low back pain and/or leg pain. Investigators furthermore hypothesize that patients that have a higher match between their expectations of improvement and actual improvement are more satisfied. A secondary objective of this study is to investigate the prognostic significance of a high match between expectations of improvement and actual improvement on patient satisfaction of the treatment.
Study details
- Official title
- Can Patient Expectations Influence Pain Reduction After Epidural Injections in Patients With Low Back Pain? An Observational Cohort Study
- Conditions
- Expectations
- Back Pain
- Back Pain Lower Back Chronic
- Satisfaction, Patient
- Injections, Epidural
- Injections, Periradicular
- Pain, Back
- Interventions
- Procedure: Epidural Injection
- Procedure: Periradicular Injection
- Sponsor
- Ospedale Regionale di Lugano
- Collaborators
- Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
- Start date
- 2022-04-20
- Primary completion
- 2022-09-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion criteria Subjects fulfilling all of the following inclusion criteria are eligible for the investigation: * Age \> 18 years old. * Patients treated with a fluoroscopic guided lumbar epidural injection (transforaminal/translaminar/caudal) for back and/or leg pain Exclusion criteria The presence of any one of the following exclusion criteria will lead to the exclusion of the subject * patients who did not complete the questionnaires * patient did not sign the general consent form (EOC\_M-AFRI-001/A)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05402631