Clinical trial NCT06052228: Turkish Version of the Worry About Pain Questionnaire
Official title: Cultural Adaptation and Turkish Version of the Worry About Pain Questionnaire in Individuals With Musculoskeletal Pain: Reliability and Validity Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Pain, Chronic
Musculoskeletal Pain
Lead sponsor: Istinye University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-09-25
Enrollment: 85
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Individuals with Musculoskeletal Pain

Brief summary: Pain is one of the main complaints that causes people to apply to health institutions. Pain is seen as a passive warning signal of an underlying disease process; When it becomes chronic, it is considered a disease on its own. Pain that persists longer than the expected recovery time is defined as chronic pain.

Pain is associated with a number of psychological, physical, and social factors. Clinical observations report that various psychological problems, especially anxiety, and depression, accompany chronic pain, and the long-term persistence of pain significantly impacts a patient's quality of life. Chronic musculoskeletal pain causes fatigue, sleep disruption, and activity and participation restrictions. Therefore, evaluation of pain originating from the musculoskeletal system and factors that cause and increase pain need to be addressed from a biopsychosocial perspective. Chronic pain is an ideal environment for anxiety to develop. If the person's chronic pain cannot be resolved, anxiety increases and the anxiety becomes excessive, the person may lose the ability to distinguish what is dangerous from what is not, as he cannot evaluate pain-related cues properly. Anxiety and depression scales are often used to assess the long-term psychosocial consequences of chronic musculoskeletal pain. However, these scales are inadequate to explain the relationship between pain and anxiety. The Worry About Pain Questionnaire is a self-report scale of 15 items specifically developed to assess pain-related pressure.

To our knowledge, there is no standard, valid, and reliable Turkish questionnaire in the literature that evaluates the pain-related concerns of individuals with musculoskeletal pain and takes into account the cultural differences of Turkish patients. For this reason, our study aims to translate and culturally adapt the Worry About Pain Questionnaire into Turkish in individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain and to examine the psychometric properties of the Turkish Worry About Pain Questionnaire.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being able to read and write in Turkish
* Not having any cognitive impairment
* Having chronic musculoskeletal pain
* Being over 18 years of age
* Being willing and volunteer to work

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having a complaint of pain in the musculoskeletal system due to cancer, fracture or surgery within the last 6 months.
* Having severe cognitive impairment
* Having a systemic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus
* Having any neuromuscular disease (such as MS, myopathy)

Primary outcomes:
measure: The Worry About Pain Questionnaire
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Fear of Pain Scale III
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Short Form McGill Pain Scale
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Pain Pressure Threshold
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Beck Depression Inventory,
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Beck Anxiety Inventory
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Nottingham Health Profile
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
timeFrame: 4 weeks
measure: Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale
timeFrame: 4 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Istinye University
Study officials:
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