Adolescent Knee Pain (AK-Pain) Prognostic Tool

NCT03995771 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: AAndreucci
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 131
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The overall aim of this study is to develop and test a prognostic tool for knee pain in children and adolescents to be used in general practice. By using the tool, general practitioners will be able to allocate the patient to a category of risk (e.g. low/medium/high) of recurrent or persistent knee pain at 3 months and 6 months, and to subsequently provide a treatment that is specific to the category of risk of the patient.

Conditions

Knee Pain

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Recurrence/persistence of activity-limiting knee pain (i.e. yes/no pain that is limiting activities in the same knee) at 3-month follow-up

  Activity-limiting knee pain: pain that is limiting activities in the same knee. Participants will also be asked about continuity of their knee pain (i.e. "how long have you been free of knee pain?"), to enable the distinction between recurrence (on/off knee pain episodes between baseline and follow-up) and persistence (continuous knee pain from baseline to follow-up) of knee pain

  3-month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Recurrence/persistence of activity-limiting knee pain (i.e. yes/no pain that is limiting activities in the same knee) at 6-month follow-up

  6-month follow-up

Study Arms (1)

Children and adolescents with knee pain

Children and adolescents (8-19 years old) presenting to general practice for knee pain

Other: Questionnaire delivery

Interventions

Questionnaire delivery OTHER

A questionnaire including questions regarding prognostic factors for knee pain will be delivered to children and adolescents (8-19 years old) presenting to general practice with knee pain

Children and adolescents with knee pain

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 8 Years - 19 Years
• Sex: all
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)
• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Children and adolescents (aged 8-19 years old) who consult their general practitioner because of their knee pain

You may qualify if:

• Children and adolescents (aged 8-19 years old) who consult their general practitioner because of their knee pain (of both traumatic and non-traumatic origin) during a period of recruitment of 6 months (starting in July 2019)

You may not qualify if:

• Age below 8 years old or over 19 years old
• Consultation for musculoskeletal pain only in a body region different from the knee
• Pain originated by different conditions (e.g. cancer, infections)
• Child is vulnerable (e.g. he/she has experienced a recent trauma and the distress may have an impact on the self-report making it not valid)
• Inability to take part to the study because of inability to understand or comply

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Aalborg University: lead
• TrygFonden, Denmark: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Aalborg

Aalborg, 9000, Denmark

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Andreucci A, Holden S, Bach Jensen M, Skovdal Rathleff M. The Adolescent Knee Pain (AK-Pain) prognostic tool: protocol for a prospective cohort study. F1000Res. 2019 Dec 30;8:2148. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.21740.2. eCollection 2019.

  PMID: 32399187 DERIVED

Related Links

• Webpage of the Center for General Practice at Aalborg University

Study Officials

• Alessandro Andreucci, PhD

  Aalborg University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Target Duration: 6 Months
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Dr. Alessandro Andreucci, post-doc researcher

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 15, 2019
• First Posted: June 24, 2019
• Study Start: July 1, 2019
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2022
• Study Completion: December 1, 2022
• Last Updated: February 21, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-02

Locations

DK (1)