Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents.

NCT02547415 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 14081522014-A01384-43
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 4

Brief Summary

Medically unexplained chronic pain - without identifiable somatic origin - is yet an insufficiently known and explored field in children and adolescents by international clinical works. This research aims to characterize somatic, psychological, psychopathological and environmental (particularly attachment styles and family functioning) processes trough an observational study with three pain management centers. The study concerns children and adolescents from 7 to 17 years old, suffering of medically unexplained chronic pain and their parents who are referred to a pain center. It is composed of a somatic, psychological and family functioning assessment on the one hand and psychopathological and attachment evaluation on the other hand.

Conditions

Pain, Chronic

Keywords

Pain, Chronic; children

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Explanatory factors for pain

  Environmental, familial, personal factors in children with chronic pain

  1 month

Study Arms (1)

patients with questionnaires and psychological testing

children and adolescents with chronic pain without proven medical cause, type painful somatic complaints

Other: questionnaires and psychological testing

Interventions

questionnaires and psychological testing OTHER

Child/adolescent and parents interview and consultation with both a physician and a psychologist for a somatic and pain indicators assessment within an usual setting. Then, parents and child or adolescent are interviewed separately using different psychological instruments with only a psychologist: * Psychological (cognitive and projective evaluation) : Intellectual Quotient, mental flexibility, projective evaluation with Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test, parents and children attachment questionnaires * Psychopathological: anxiety and depression questionnaires, psychiatric disorders evaluation, quality of life, life events questionnaires, family functioning interview.

patients with questionnaires and psychological testing

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 7 Years - 17 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Children and adolescent with chronic pain

You may qualify if:

• Children and adolescent with chronic pain no proven medical cause, type of painful somatic complaints within the scope of one of the following diagnoses to ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) and DSM-IV and DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to somatoform disorders, distinguishing between :
• pain disorder
• somatoform disorder
• undifferentiated somatoform disorder
• Addressed to the pain centers or in pediatric chronic pain services hosting children.
• being fluently French-speaking and French-reading

You may not qualify if:

• presence of current or past organic pathology including migraines and epilepsy, which may interfere with somatic expression of studied disorder

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne: lead

Study Sites (4)

Hospices Civils de LYON

Bron, 69500, France

Location

Hopital TROUSSEAU

Paris, 75012, France

Location

Hopital NECKER

Paris, 75015, France

Location

CHU de SAINT-ETIENNE

Saint-Etienne, 42000, France

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Interventions

Surveys and Questionnaires; Psychological Tests

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Data Collection; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms; Quality of Health Care; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Public Health; Environment and Public Health; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Study Officials

• Anne-Marie PERRIN

  CHU de SAINT-ETIENNE

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 9, 2015
• First Posted: September 11, 2015
• Study Start: January 22, 2015
• Primary Completion: January 10, 2018
• Study Completion: January 10, 2018
• Last Updated: September 16, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

FR (4)