Skills Training and Relief for Orofacial Pain
Not yet recruitingNot applicableNCT07802067
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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)
Chronic orofacial pain conditions (COFP) are associated with substantial physical and psychological burden and are best treated with multidisciplinary approaches combining psychological interventions and comprehensive orofacial pain care. Yet, important barriers prevent access to psychological interventions for COFP (e.g., lack of providers, financial resources). This study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of adapting a single two-hour telehealth-delivered group course, Empowered Relief (ER), which was created for heterogenous chronic pain condition, into a multidisciplinary COFP clinic. ER addresses many existing barriers to assessing psychological interventions for COFP as it is deliverable via telehealth, in a group format, within a single session. This study hypothesizes that ER will demonstrate adequate feasibility and acceptability among patients with COFP. Participants will be recruited over a 6-month period from patients evaluated for an initial appointment at the University of Kentucky Orofacial Pain Clinic (UKOPC). A randomized waitlist control design will be used to inform a future efficacy trial. Specifically, new patients seeking an initial appointment at the UKOPC will be introduced to the study, and if they consent, they will be randomly assigned to participate in the next available ER course (i.e., immediate group) or the ER course offered the subsequent month (i.e., waitlist control group). All participants will provide feasibility and acceptability data after receiving the intervention. Those assigned to immediate group will provide biopsychosocial functioning and outcome data at one, two, and four weeks following the pain course. Those assigned to the immediate control group will provide data one, two, and four weeks before the intervention for a comparison group. Data from this study will inform design decisions for a future efficacy trial.
Study details
- Official title
- Skills Training and Relief for Orofacial Pain: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Single Session Pain Management Course in a Tertiary Orofacial Pain Clinic
- Conditions
- Chronic Orofacial Pain
- Orofacial Pain
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- University of Kentucky
- Start date
- 2026-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2027-10-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 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)
Inclusion Criteria: * Must be in the state of Kentucky * Must be 18 years or older * Ability to read, write, and speak English * Experienced pain longer than 3 months * Treatment-seeking patient at University of Kentucky Orofacial Pain Clinic * Must have the appropriate technology to access telehealth (e.g., laptop, stable connection) Exclusion Criteria: * Suicidal ideation with intent in the last two weeks * Homicidal ideation with intent in the last 2 weeks * Mania symptoms in the past 6 months * Hypomania symptoms in the past 6 months * Psychosis symptoms in the past 6 months
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07802067