Pain-at-Work Toolkit (Definitive Trial)

Brief summary (from the registry)

The Pain-at-Work Toolkit has been created together with people who live with chronic pain, employers, healthcare professionals, and a national pain charity. The aim of the toolkit is to help employees with ongoing pain feel more confident in managing their condition at work, know where to find support, and improve their workplace experience, so they can remain in the workforce. People with lived experience of chronic pain will help guide the project throughout, including reviewing study documents and helping choose what outcomes to measure. The investigators will work with at least 30 organisations from different types of workplaces in the UK and invite more than 600 employees who live with pain to take part in the study. Organisations' employees will either receive access to the Pain-at-Work Toolkit and the Pain-at-Work Managers Toolkit ( to help managers support their staff) or the usual care that their organisation offers. Participants will be asked to complete online surveys at three points during the study. Intervention participants may be asked to take part in an interview at the end of the study to find out more about their experiences. The study will examine whether the toolkit improves people's experience of work, including their productivity and ability to remain productive in their jobs. The investigators will also explore whether the toolkit offers good value for money. Finally, the investigators will examine how the toolkit is used in practice-what works well, what might need improving, and how it could be made available to more employees in the future. The investigators will do this by interviewing employers or stakeholders involved in the employment of, support for, or policy development for adults with chronic pain.

Study details

Official title

Pain-at-Work Toolkit for Employees With Chronic Pain (Definitive Trial)

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Pain, Chronic

Interventions

• Other: The Pain-at-Work Toolkit is an web-based digital resource, providing education and information about behaviour change related to the self-management of chronic pain in the workplace.
• Other: Control (Standard treatment)

Sponsor

University of Nottingham

Collaborators

Monash University; University of Aberdeen; University of Exeter; University of Salford; The Nuffield Foundation; Arthritis UK

Start date

2026-05-11

Primary completion

2028-09-30

Sex

All

Age range

from 18 Years

Results posted

No results posted in this snapshot

Countries

United Kingdom

Total sites listed

1

Eligibility criteria