Treatment Options for Pediatric Chronic Pain: How do we Best Disseminate Our Scientific Findings
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
Pediatric chronic pain is a prevalent condition with manifold treatment options. However, knowledge of targeted dissemination of intervention research findings is currently lacking.
The aim of this project is to determine satisfaction with current knowledge transfer from science to clinical practice amongst health care professionals, adolescents with CPP and their parents and to understand what treatment options have been offered to patients in Swiss pain centers Three focus groups, one with health care professionals, one with adolescent patients, and one with their parents, will be conducted to determine how the dissemination of scientific evidence to clinical practice can be improved and what hurdles exists when gathering information about pain interventions. In addition, patients will be asked about the treatment options offered to them and health care professionals about which treatments they routinely prescribe and why.
| Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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Study Design
Arms and Interventions
| Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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| Adolescents with chronic pain
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Other: No intervention, observational study
Focus Group
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| Parents of adolescents with chronic pain
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Other: No intervention, observational study
Focus Group
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| Health care professionals who work with adolescents with chronic pain
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Other: No intervention, observational study
Focus Group
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- Information seeking behavior [immediattely after the focus group]
Participants' key messages will be reduced to major subjects by means of content analysis. The goal is to understand participants' information seeking behavior with regard to chronic pain and interventions for chronic pain
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Adolescent group:
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Adolescents suffering from chronic pain (i.e., persistent or recurrent pain for three months or more)
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Able to read and speak German
Parent group:
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Parents of an adolescent with chronic pain
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Able to read and speak German
Health care professionals group:
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Health care professional working with adolescents with chronic pain
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Able to read and speak German
Exclusion Criteria:
- no chronic pain or experience with chronic pain
Contacts and Locations
Locations
| Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel | Basel | Switzerland | 40555 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Helen Koechlin, PhD, University of Basel
Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- Dissemination Focus Groups