Clinical trial NCT01603797: Guided Internet-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain Patients
Official title: Guided Internet-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain Patients: a Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Chronic Pain
Keywords: internetdelivered CBT
chronic pain
acceptance and commitment therapy
mindfulness
guided self help
Lead sponsor: Linkoeping University
Sponsor class: OTHER_GOV
First posted: 2012-05-22
Enrollment: 76
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The aim of this study was to investigate if guided internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)would help chronic pain patients.

Detailed description: The present study investigates internet-delivered ACT for persons with chronic pain. The use of internet as a delivery format for interventions could be a way of overcome many barriers (financial obstacles, reluctance to seek treatment and paucity of clinicians trained in ACT) that hinder persons with chronic pain to seek or receive adequate help. Persons were randomized to either treatment for 7 weeks or to a control group who were invited to participate in a moderated online discussion forum. Follow up data was collected six months after the treatment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* that participants had undergone medical investigation (within one year)
* had regular access to the internet
* had functional impairment caused by chronic pain
* had internet access

Exclusion Criteria:

* ongoing medical investigations or treatment that could interfere with participation in the study, such as planned surgery and suffering from acute physical or psychological conditions
* not fluent in the Swedish language

Primary outcomes:
measure: Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ)
timeFrame: One week pre- and post-treatment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Hospital and Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)
timeFrame: One week pre- and post- treatment
measure: The Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ)
timeFrame: One week pre- and post- treatment
measure: Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI-S)
timeFrame: One week pre- and post- treatment
measure: The Pain and Impairment Relationship Scale (PAIRS)
timeFrame: One week pre- and post- treatment
measure: Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI)
timeFrame: One week pre- and post- treatment
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Linkoeping University
name: Gerhard Andersson, Professor
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Uppsala University
name: Monica Buhrman, MSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Uppsala University
name: Timo Hursti, PhD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Uppsala University
name: Torsten Gordh, Professor
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Uppsala University
name: Tomas Furmark, Professor
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Uppsala University
name: Astrid Skoglund, MSc
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Uppsala University
name: Josefin Husell, MSc
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Uppsala University
name: Kristina Bergström, MSc
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Linkoeping University
name: Nina Bendelin, MSc
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: Bendelin N, Bjorkdahl P, Risell M, Nelson KZ, Gerdle B, Andersson G, Buhrman M. Patients' experiences of internet-based Acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain: a qualitative study. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2020 Apr 6;21(1):212. doi: 10.1186/s12891-020-03198-1.