Heartache and Backache- An Online Intervention Addressing Emotional and Physical Pain
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Official title
Randomized Clinical Trial of Pain Psychology/Neuroscience and Written Disclosure for Chronic Pain
Brief summary
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This study is designed to determine if a brief educational program and a written emotional disclosure task can improve chronic back/neck pain-related outcomes and change pain beliefs and other processes in individuals with chronic back pain. Individuals will be randomly assigned to an experimental condition (pain and affect neuroscience education) or a control condition (general health activities questionnaire), and then subsequently randomized to a second experimental condition (written emotional disclosure) or a control condition (writing about healthy habits). Analyses will examine the main and interactive effects of the pain and affect neuroscience education and written emotional disclosure on improved pain-related outcomes at 1-month follow-up. Participants in both the experimental conditions are expected to show more improvement on pain severity, pain interference, psychological distress and psychological attitudes toward pain at follow-up, relative to participants in the control groups.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05513274
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 107 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Pain Psychology Neuroscience + Written Emotional Disclosure Behavioral
- Pain Psychology Neuroscience + Healthy Habits Disclosure Behavioral
- Health Behavior Control + Written Emotional Disclosure Behavioral
- Health Behavior Control + Healthy Habits Disclosure Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 75 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Dec 14, 2022
- Primary completion
- Dec 29, 2024
- Completion
- Dec 29, 2024
- Last update posted
- Jul 15, 2025
2022 – 2024
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New School for Social Research Department of Psychology | New York | New York | 48202 | — |
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