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The effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is highly prevalent in the working population. People tend to attempt self-initiated treatments to manage their pain. The self-efficacy of behavioural change is a suitable model for guiding the development of an electronic pain management programme (ePain). The aim in this s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32448387 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04348-5 |
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author | Tang, Shuk Kwan Tse, Mimi Mun Yee Leung, Sau Fong Fotis, Theofanis |
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description | BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is highly prevalent in the working population. People tend to attempt self-initiated treatments to manage their pain. The self-efficacy of behavioural change is a suitable model for guiding the development of an electronic pain management programme (ePain). The aim in this study is to develop ePain and to evaluate its effectiveness at improving pain self-efficacy, reducing pain intensity and negative emotions, and increasing quality of life. METHODS: This study will be a randomized controlled trial. ePain will take the form of a 6-week online pain management programme. Participants will be aged 15 years or above, have chronic pain, and be employed. They must complete the baseline questionnaire and will be randomized into intervention and control groups. They will receive notifications to encourage their participation in ePain and complete the evaluation questionnaires. They will complete the process evaluation at week 3, the post assessment at week 6, and the follow-up assessment at week 12. The study will focus on pain self-efficacy; pain situations; negative emotions including levels of depression, anxiety, and stress; and quality of life. The participants’ opinions of ePain will be collected as feedback. Data will be analysed on an intention-to-treat basis and generalized estimating equations will be used to investigate the time-averaged difference and differences at each follow-up time. DISCUSSION: The study will provide information about the pain situations of online users in the working population. The participants will benefit from improvements in pain self-efficacy, pain situations, emotional status, and quality of life. The study will illustrate whether online learning is an effective intervention for improving the pain self-efficacy of the working population. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03718702. Registered on 23 October 2018. |
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spelling | pubmed-72457572020-06-01 The effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Tang, Shuk Kwan Tse, Mimi Mun Yee Leung, Sau Fong Fotis, Theofanis Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is highly prevalent in the working population. People tend to attempt self-initiated treatments to manage their pain. The self-efficacy of behavioural change is a suitable model for guiding the development of an electronic pain management programme (ePain). The aim in this study is to develop ePain and to evaluate its effectiveness at improving pain self-efficacy, reducing pain intensity and negative emotions, and increasing quality of life. METHODS: This study will be a randomized controlled trial. ePain will take the form of a 6-week online pain management programme. Participants will be aged 15 years or above, have chronic pain, and be employed. They must complete the baseline questionnaire and will be randomized into intervention and control groups. They will receive notifications to encourage their participation in ePain and complete the evaluation questionnaires. They will complete the process evaluation at week 3, the post assessment at week 6, and the follow-up assessment at week 12. The study will focus on pain self-efficacy; pain situations; negative emotions including levels of depression, anxiety, and stress; and quality of life. The participants’ opinions of ePain will be collected as feedback. Data will be analysed on an intention-to-treat basis and generalized estimating equations will be used to investigate the time-averaged difference and differences at each follow-up time. DISCUSSION: The study will provide information about the pain situations of online users in the working population. The participants will benefit from improvements in pain self-efficacy, pain situations, emotional status, and quality of life. The study will illustrate whether online learning is an effective intervention for improving the pain self-efficacy of the working population. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03718702. Registered on 23 October 2018. BioMed Central 2020-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7245757/ /pubmed/32448387 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04348-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Tang, Shuk Kwan Tse, Mimi Mun Yee Leung, Sau Fong Fotis, Theofanis The effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title | The effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_full | The effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_fullStr | The effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | The effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_short | The effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_sort | effectiveness of an electronic pain management programme for the working population with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7245757/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32448387 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-020-04348-5 |
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