Treatment Options for Pediatric Chronic Pain: How do we Best Disseminate Our Scientific Findings

NCT05239299 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Dissemination Focus Groups
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 19
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Pediatric chronic pain is a prevalent condition with manifold treatment options. However, knowledge of targeted dissemination of intervention research findings is currently lacking. The aim of this project is to determine satisfaction with current knowledge transfer from science to clinical practice amongst health care professionals, adolescents with CPP and their parents and to understand what treatment options have been offered to patients in Swiss pain centers Three focus groups, one with health care professionals, one with adolescent patients, and one with their parents, will be conducted to determine how the dissemination of scientific evidence to clinical practice can be improved and what hurdles exists when gathering information about pain interventions. In addition, patients will be asked about the treatment options offered to them and health care professionals about which treatments they routinely prescribe and why.

Conditions

Pediatric Chronic Pain

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Information seeking behavior

  Participants' key messages will be reduced to major subjects by means of content analysis. The goal is to understand participants' information seeking behavior with regard to chronic pain and interventions for chronic pain

  immediattely after the focus group

Study Arms (3)

Adolescents with chronic pain

Other: No intervention, observational study

Parents of adolescents with chronic pain

Other: No intervention, observational study

Health care professionals who work with adolescents with chronic pain

Other: No intervention, observational study

Interventions

No intervention, observational study OTHER

Focus Group

Adolescents with chronic pain; Health care professionals who work with adolescents with chronic pain; Parents of adolescents with chronic pain

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Adolescents with chronic pain, one of their parents and health care professionals working with adolescents with chronic pain

You may qualify if:

• Adolescent group:
• Adolescents suffering from chronic pain (i.e., persistent or recurrent pain for three months or more)
• Able to read and speak German
• Parent group:
• Parents of an adolescent with chronic pain
• Able to read and speak German
• Health care professionals group:
• Health care professional working with adolescents with chronic pain
• Able to read and speak German

You may not qualify if:

• no chronic pain or experience with chronic pain

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel

Basel, 40555, Switzerland

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Observation

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Methods; Investigative Techniques

Study Officials

• Helen Koechlin, PhD

  University of Basel

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: OTHER
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 24, 2022
• First Posted: February 14, 2022
• Study Start: May 21, 2022
• Primary Completion: January 30, 2024
• Study Completion: December 31, 2024
• Last Updated: February 3, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CH (1)