Pain Acceptance Training in Patients Experiencing Emotional Distress and Somatic Symptoms: Examination of Dialectical Thinking as a Mediating Factor
RecruitingNot applicableNCT07067619
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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)
Somatic symptoms, including physical pain, are highly prevalent among mental health patients. Current treatments have limited effectiveness for these symptoms, primarily because of patients' diminished introspective capacity and lack of emotional awareness. The current study proposes pain acceptance training as a new intervention. This intervention relies on the tenets of dialectical thinking, particularly on maintaining a dialectic perspective - at once acknowledging both the desire to end the pain and the ability to accept it as it is. We aim to examine the following: (1) the efficacy of pain acceptance training in the alleviation of somatic pain in patients with somatic symptoms; (2) the role of dialectical thinking as a mediator of pain acceptance training efficacy.
Study details
- Official title
- Pain Acceptance Training in Patients Experiencing Emotional Distress and Somatic Symptoms: Examination of Dialectical Thinking as a Mediating Factor
- Conditions
- Chronic Pain
- Somatic Pain
- Comorbid Pain and Emotional Difficulties
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Pain-acceptance intervention
- Sponsor
- University of Haifa
- Collaborators
- Rambam Health Care Campus
- Start date
- 2024-12-01
- Primary completion
- 2026-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Israel
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Men and Women 2. Aged 18-70 3. Able to provide a signed informed consent 4. Experiencing significant pain symptoms that interfere with daily-life functioning 5. Experiencing significant emotional distress symptoms Exclusion Criteria: Patients under the age of 18 and/or diagnosed with one or more of the following diagnoses will be excluded from participation in the study: 1. Patients rating their average pain in the last week and in the last month as less than 3 in a 0-10 numerical rating scale (i.e. NPS) 2. Patients rating their emotional distress levels as less than 25 in a 10-50 numerical rating scale (i.e. Kessler Psychological Distress Scale \[K10\]) 3. Patients diagnosed with psychotic disorders and/or suffering from psychotic symptoms. 4. Patients diagnosed with Autism Spectrum disorder. 5. Patients diagnosed with Intellectual disability. 6. Patients diagnosed with eating disorders. 7. Patients with Immediate suicidal risk. 8. Patients who initiated a new drug and/or psychotherapy treatment within the last month. 9. Pregnant women. 10. Patients currently serving in the IDF.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07067619