Trial reportBMC health services research2018
Twelve-month effect of chronic pain self-management intervention delivered in an easily accessible primary healthcare service - a randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC health services research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02531282 (Effect of and Experiences With a Health Promotion Intervention for People With Chronic Pain at a Healthy Life Centre - an Open, Pragmatic, Randomized Controlled Trial With a Nested Qualitative Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effect of and Experiences With a Health Promotion Intervention for People With Chronic Pain at a Healthy Life Centre - an Open, Pragmatic, Randomized Controlled Trial With a Nested Qualitative Study
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Non-Pharmacological Interventions Targeting Sense of Coherence Among Older Adults and Adults With Chronic Conditions: A Meta-Analysis With Trial Sequential Analysis.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Pooled it
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- Effectiveness of digital co-creation platform in remote pulmonary rehabilitation for older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Greater Personal Health Agency Is Associated With Greater Patient Receptiveness to Mindset Exercises.Journal of patient experience · 2025Article
- Patient and Support Person Satisfaction Following a Whole Health-Informed Interdisciplinary Pain Team Meeting.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2024Article
- Comparing the New Interdisciplinary Health in Work Intervention With Conventional Monodisciplinary Welfare Interventions at Norwegian Workplaces: Protocol for a Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Patient activation level and its associated factors in adults with chronic pain: A cross-sectional survey.Medicine · 2021Article
- Global Well-Being Is Associated With A1C and Frequency of Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose in Predominately Latinx Youth and Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes.Diabetes spectrum : a publication of the American Diabetes Association · 2021Article
- Relationship between patient activation measurement and self-rated health in patients with chronic diseases.BMC family practice · 2020Article
- Impact of multidimensional interventions on quality of life and depression among older adults in a primary care setting in Brazil: a quasi-experimental study.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2020Article
- Evaluation of a Peer Led Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in a Rural Population.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundTo investigate the effects after twelve months related to patient activation and a range of secondary outcomes on persons with chronic pain of a chronic pain self-management course compared to a low-impact outdoor physical activity, delivered in an easily accessible healthcare service in public primary care.
methodsAn open, pragmatic, parallel group randomised controlled trial was conducted. The intervention group was offered a group-based chronic pain self-management course with 2.5-h weekly sessions for a period of six weeks comprising education that included cognitive and behavioural strategies for pain management, movement exercises, group discussions and sharing of experiences among participants. The control group was offered a drop-in, low-impact, outdoor physical activity in groups in one-hour weekly sessions that included walking and simple strength exercises for a period of six weeks. The primary outcome was patient activation assessed using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13). Secondary outcomes included assessments of pain, anxiety and depression, pain self-efficacy, sense of coherence, health-related quality of life, well-being and the 30-s Chair to Stand Test. Analyses were performed using a linear mixed model.
resultsAfter twelve months, there were no statistically significant differences between the intervention group (n = 60) and the control group (n = 61) for the primary or the secondary outcomes. The estimated mean difference between the groups for the primary outcome PAM was 4.0 (CI 95% -0.6 to 8.6, p = 0.085). Within both of the groups, there were statistically significant improvements in pain experienced during the previous week, the global self-rated health measure and the 30-s Chair to Stand Test.
conclusionsNo long-term effect of the chronic pain self-management course was found in comparison with a low-impact physical activity intervention for the primary outcome patient activation or for any secondary outcome.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02531282 . Registered on August 212,015.
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