Pain Rating Challenges and Patterns
CompletedNCT06115278
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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)
Our long-term goal is to improve pain communication for patients' health. For this project, we seek information on patients' and health care nurses' (1) mental effort when choosing or understanding, respectively, pain intensity ratings, and (2) confidence in the accuracy of pain intensity rating patterns. This information will clarify the importance of mental effort from pain ratings and the probability of pain intensity rating patterns. Our primary aim will compare patients' and nurses' perceptions of the mental effort of choosing (Aim 2a) and understanding (Aim 2b) pain intensity ratings. We hypothesize that patients will rate mental effort higher than nurses for choosing ratings and lower than nurses for understanding ratings. The results will inform future efforts to improve pain communication between patients and nurses.
Study details
- Official title
- Pain Rating Challenges and Patterns
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: survey
- Sponsor
- University of Missouri-Columbia
- Start date
- 2023-03-21
- Primary completion
- 2024-02-24
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 110 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)
Our inclusion criteria for the patients are the following: * 18 years old or older; * currently being treated by a health care provider for a painful musculoskeletal condition; * has felt a usual musculoskeletal pain intensity rating of "2" or higher on a "0" to "10" scale over the last 24 hours; * has felt extreme pain that completely disappeared; * has felt musculoskeletal pain on most days of the last 3 months; * chronic musculoskeletal pain has increased and decreased during the last 3 months; and * has felt musculoskeletal pain in more than one location on most days of the last 3 months. Our exclusion criterion for the patients is: • ever employed as a licensed health care provider. Our inclusion criteria for the nurses are the following: * 18 years old or older; * currently employed as a licensed nurse; and * current employment duties include routinely assessing the musculoskeletal pain of cognitively intact, adult outpatients. Our exclusion criteria for the nurses are the following: * currently managing a painful musculoskeletal condition; and * has ever felt musculoskeletal pain on most days for 3 months or longer.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06115278