Pain at Work Toolkit in Employees With Chronic Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT05838677
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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 project will test the feasibility and acceptability of the Pain at Work (PAW) Toolkit which aims to help employees self-manage chronic or persistent pain at work. Ultimately, the investigators want to discover if it improves employees' health, wellbeing, confidence to self-manage their condition, and reduces impacts on their ability to work and be productive at work. Prior to testing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the PAW Toolkit in a large-scale randomised trial, the investigators are conducting a multicentre pragmatic cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial. This will establish whether the PAW Toolkit, and our research processes, are feasible and acceptable in workplace settings, and will inform the design of a future trial. In this feasibility study, organisations will be randomised at site level to receive the intervention (PAW Toolkit plus occupational therapist (OT) support calls) or control (treatment as usual) for any individual employees who consent to take part. The investigators aim to recruit around 120 participants ("individual employees") from around 8 sites ("clusters"). Data will be collected from employees and organisations at baseline, 3 months and 6 months, using online surveys. At 6 months, up tp 40 people from across different sites and job roles will be interviewed, including employees who have accessed the PAW Toolkit, and other stakeholders (people who have been involved in supporting them at work, such as their line manager). The data will be used assess whether the intervention and the research processes are acceptable and feasible, and the information collected will be used to plan a large-scale randomised controlled trial.
Study details
- Official title
- Multicentre Pragmatic Cluster Randomised Controlled Feasibility Trial to Assess Potential Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of the Pain at Work Toolkit in Employees With Chronic or Persistent Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Pain at Work Toolkit
- Other: Active control
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
- Collaborators
- Nuffield Trust; University of Aberdeen; University of Exeter; Monash University; Versus Arthritis
- Start date
- 2023-07-01
- Primary completion
- 2025-07-22
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria (Organisations) * organisations in England * organisations with 10 or more employees. Inclusion Criteria (Employee participants) * working-age adults (employees) * aged 18 and over * self-reported chronic pain interfering with their ability to undertake or enjoy productive work * able to comprehend English language * able to provide informed consent. * access to the internet to be able to access the web-based intervention and online surveys for data collection. Exclusion Criteria (Organisations) * organisations outside of England * micro-organisations with fewer than 10 employees Exclusion Criteria (Employee participants) * unemployed at recruitment * under 18 years of age * no chronic pain at recruitment * unable to comprehend English language * unable to provide informed consent
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05838677