Orofacial Pain Self-management: Personality Moderation Effect
RecruitingNot applicableNCT06932406
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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 objective of this clinical trial is to study the effect of self-management on pain perception in patients with chronic orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders (TMD) comparing it with the conventional treatment proposed by the TMD clinical practice guidelines. It also evaluates its effect on function and various psychosocial variables. As a secondary objective, this work proposes to study the variability between patients, in terms of personality factors, as moderators of the effect of treatment on pain perception. Including in the proposed statistical models certain covariates such as perception and/or coping with stress, anxiety and other psychosocial variables. This is a randomized clinical trial with two intervention groups and three measurement times (T0; pre-intervention, T1; post-5 weeks and T2; post-6 months). The experimental group will be applied a protocol based on self-management, which includes: therapeutic education, cognitive-behavioral tools, therapeutic exercise of the temporomandibular region, mind-body strategies and modifications of aspects related to lifestyle. The control group will carry out an intervention program based on the Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders. Therefore, using a set of tools based on therapeutic education, cognitive-behavioral tools for bruxism and other parafunctional habits, temporomandibular region exercises and manual therapy.
Study details
- Official title
- Orofacial Pain Self-management: Personality Moderation Effect - Randomized Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Chronic Orofacial Pain
- Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD)
- Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD)
- Temporomandibular Dysfunction (TMD)
- Interventions
- Other: Self-management intervention
- Other: Clinical Practice Guideline Intervention
- Sponsor
- Fundación Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir
- Start date
- 2025-11-28
- Primary completion
- 2026-05-24
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * The patient presents TMDs diagnosed according to the CD/TMD classification. * Age between 18 and 65. * Presence of pain in mandibular, temporal, facial, peri-auricular and/or auricular regions. * Presence of chronic orofacial pain. Defined by the ICD-11 as orofacial pain or headache that occurs for more than two hours a day for 50% of the days of the last three months. * Orofacial pain is related to TMDs according to the International Classification of Headaches. * Moderate pain intensity, corresponding to a weekly average of at least 30 mm on a 100 mm VAS (validated representation of moderate pain on the VAS scale = 31-54 mm) Exclusion Criteria: * Concomitant rheumatic systemic pathologies. * History of trauma or recent surgical intervention in the head, face, neck or chest. * Presence of intraoral infections or odontogenic pain. * Headache of neuropathic origin (trigeminal neuralgia, Arnold neuralgia, etc.). * Being receiving therapy (except rescue pharmacological therapy) for this disorder or pain. * Cognitive impairment that prevents the follow-up of an educational program (determined through the MoCA questionnaire)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06932406