Manage My Pain at Chronic Pain Clinics

NCT04762329 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 17-6201
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 246
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The overall objective of this Early Adoption project is to gather evidence for how Managing My Pain Program (MMP), a novel digital pain management application can enable better care at home for chronic pain sufferers in the province of Ontario, Canada across 4 sites in urban, community, and rural settings

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Keywords

Pain; Psychology; Patient Oriented Research; Quality of Life; Digital Health; Chronic Pain; Pain App; Virtual Care; mHealth; Pain Management; Chronic Disease Management; Remote Monitoring

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Evaluating engagement based on adoption and retention rates

  Evaluating the number of patients who elected to use the Manage My Pain (MMP) application, and determining how long they used the app in the short-term (4.5 months) and long-term (4.5-7 months) follow-ups

  24 months

Secondary Outcomes (6)

• Change in depression as measured by the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9)

  Short-term (4.5 months) and long-term (4.5-7 months)

• Change in anxiety as measured by the General Anxiety Disorder 7-item Questionnaire (GAD-7)

  Short-term (4.5 months) and long-term (4.5-7 months)

• Change in pain disability as measured by the Pain Disability Index (PDI)

  Short-term (4.5 months) and long-term (4.5-7 months)

• Change in pain catastrophizing and measured by the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS)

  Short-term (4.5 months) and long-term (4.5-7 months)

• Change in opioid consumption as measured by Oral Morphine Equivalents (OME)

  Short-term (4.5 months) and long-term (4.5-7 months)

Study Arms (2)

Patient group using Manage My Pain (MMP) digital application for pain data

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants completed pain related questionnaires on the following pain related outcomes - anxiety, depression, catastrophizing, disability, patient impression of change, and daily opioid consumption at baseline on initial visit and as a part of the first follow-up clinical visits, on the Manage My Pain (MMP) digital application

Other: Manage My Pain (MMP) digital pain app group

Patient group using paper format for pain data

NO INTERVENTION

Participants completed pain related questionnaires on the following pain related outcomes - anxiety, depression, catastrophizing, disability, patient impression of change, and daily opioid consumption at baseline on initial visit and as a part of the first follow-up clinical visits on paper format or phone interviews.

Interventions

Manage My Pain (MMP) digital pain app group OTHER

To evaluate the extent of patient engagement with the Manage My Pain (MMP) digital application when used in a clinical setting

Patient group using Manage My Pain (MMP) digital application for pain data

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• New patients with chronic pain conditions referred to participating sites with pain programs to adopt the MMP tool into clinical practice.

You may not qualify if:

• Patients declining to consent for the study
• Patients withdrawing from the study at a later time after consenting

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Health Network, Toronto: lead
• Ontario Centres of Excellence: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Toronto Western Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

Location

Related Publications (4)

• Portelli P, Eldred C. A quality review of smartphone applications for the management of pain. Br J Pain. 2016 Aug;10(3):135-40. doi: 10.1177/2049463716638700. Epub 2016 Apr 19.

  PMID: 27583140 BACKGROUND

• Alexander JC, Joshi GP. Smartphone applications for chronic pain management: a critical appraisal. J Pain Res. 2016 Sep 26;9:731-734. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S119966. eCollection 2016. No abstract available.

  PMID: 27713649 BACKGROUND

• Salazar A, de Sola H, Failde I, Moral-Munoz JA. Measuring the Quality of Mobile Apps for the Management of Pain: Systematic Search and Evaluation Using the Mobile App Rating Scale. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2018 Oct 25;6(10):e10718. doi: 10.2196/10718.

  PMID: 30361196 BACKGROUND

• Bhatia A, Kara J, Janmohamed T, Prabhu A, Lebovic G, Katz J, Clarke H. User Engagement and Clinical Impact of the Manage My Pain App in Patients With Chronic Pain: A Real-World, Multi-site Trial. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2021 Mar 4;9(3):e26528. doi: 10.2196/26528.

  PMID: 33661130 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Chronic Pain; Pain; Agnosia

Interventions

Matrix Metalloproteinases

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Perceptual Disorders; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Metalloendopeptidases; Endopeptidases; Peptide Hydrolases; Hydrolases; Enzymes; Enzymes and Coenzymes; Metalloproteases

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 26, 2020
• First Posted: February 21, 2021
• Study Start: January 8, 2018
• Primary Completion: January 8, 2020
• Study Completion: April 8, 2020
• Last Updated: March 28, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)