Heartache and Backache- An Online Intervention Addressing Emotional and Physical Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT05513274
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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 is designed to determine if a brief educational program and a written emotional disclosure task can improve chronic back/neck pain-related outcomes and change pain beliefs and other processes in individuals with chronic back pain. Individuals will be randomly assigned to an experimental condition (pain and affect neuroscience education) or a control condition (general health activities questionnaire), and then subsequently randomized to a second experimental condition (written emotional disclosure) or a control condition (writing about healthy habits). Analyses will examine the main and interactive effects of the pain and affect neuroscience education and written emotional disclosure on improved pain-related outcomes at 1-month follow-up. Participants in both the experimental conditions are expected to show more improvement on pain severity, pain interference, psychological distress and psychological attitudes toward pain at follow-up, relative to participants in the control groups.
Study details
- Official title
- Randomized Clinical Trial of Pain Psychology/Neuroscience and Written Disclosure for Chronic Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Pain Psychology Neuroscience + Written Emotional Disclosure
- Behavioral: Pain Psychology Neuroscience + Healthy Habits Disclosure
- Behavioral: Health Behavior Control + Written Emotional Disclosure
- Behavioral: Health Behavior Control + Healthy Habits Disclosure
- Sponsor
- Wayne State University
- Collaborators
- The New School for Social Research
- Start date
- 2022-12-15
- Primary completion
- 2024-12-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- 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: * English speaking * Chronic musculoskeletal back or neck pain for greater than 1 year as primary symptom complaint * Participants living in western countries USA, UK and Australia * Have access to a computer or smartphone Exclusion Criteria: * Presence of serious disease or impairment (cancer, systemic infection, serious vision impairment) * Clear evidence of significant structural damage likely causing their pain (eg, vertebral compression fracture); * Being considered for interventional spine procedures (eg, steroidal injections) or surgery; * Leg or arm pain more severe than back or neck pain * Rheumatoid arthritis * Fibromyalgia * Active psychosis
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05513274