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Personalising Psychotherapy for Chronic Primary Pain Using Network Analysis

CompletedNot applicableNCT06179784
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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 this single case experimental design study with multiple baselines is to use network analysis to personalise cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic primary pain (CPP) and base the selection of individual treatment targets and interventions on data to avoid cognitive biases of the clinicians. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Is the study procedure accepted by and feasible for CPP patients as well as their therapists? * Does the personalised psychotherapy with databased clinical decisionmaking lead to significant improvement? Participants will go through several study phases: * Pretest and informational meeting with study management * Baseline 1: answering a questionnaire six times a day for 21 days in daily life on their mobilephone (EMA); this data will be used for the calculation of a network for each participant, that in turn will be used to select the treatment target and according treatment intervention as suggested by an algorithmic decisiontool * Probatory therapy phase: three weekly sessions with therapist; questionnaire three times a week * Baseline 2: questionnaire three times a week * Therapy phase: up to ten sessions with therapist; questionnaire three times a week * Post phase: posttest, two weeks of three weekly assessments, then another 21 days EMA; two monthly booster sessions with therapist * Follow-up: posttest and meeting with study management

Study details

Official title
Personalising Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Chronic Primary Pain Using Network Analysis - A Single Case Experimental Design Study With Multiple Baselines
Conditions
  • Chronic Primary Pain
Interventions
  • Behavioral: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy including third-wave
Sponsor
Prof. Dr. Julia Glombiewski
Organization
University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
Start date
2023-11-17
Primary completion
2025-08-08
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Results posted
No results posted in this snapshot
Countries
Germany
Total sites listed
1

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * main diagnosis of chronic pain (i.e. pain persists for at least 6 months and is the most prominent/most burdensome symptom) * subjective impairment/disability (yes-no) * access to a smartphone compatible with the app mPath Exclusion Criteria: * acute hazard due to suicidality, substance abuse, and/or psychosis * only migraine/headache or migraine/headache are the focus of pain * analphabetism * insufficient German knowledge * current psychotherapy * current participation in another intervention study * physical inability to take part in therapy and study sessions

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06179784