Short summary

We aim to examine changes that high-impact chronic pain patients (N=10-15) experience during the first 3 months of a standardized treatment course in a tertiary care interdisciplinary pan center. The study will utilize a multiple single-case time series design. Data will be collected with 8 repeating questions, that participants answer every other day through the 3 months totaling 45 data points. Results will be analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Rationale

The Pain Center at OUH has recently implemented a new standardized treatment course based on national recommendations. However, little is known on the effect of the individual components of the entire treatment package. Thus, in this study we aim to explore the first part of the treatment course, where patients receive a biopsychosocial assessment, a pain diagnosis and group-based pain education. Specifically, we aim to explore whether patients experience changes in 7 different pain related measures throughout the 3 months of participation and the temporal development in such changes.

Description of the cohort

Participants will be recruited among new patients at the Pain Center. Patients here suffer from high-impact chronic pain which is characterized by having a major impact on the patients daily life or ability to work and where treatments in primary and secondary care have been insufficient.

Data and biological material

Questionnaire data.

Collaborating researchers and departments

Pain Center South, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, OUH

• Henrik Bjarke Vægter, Professor

Centre for Digital Psychiatry

• Kim Mathiasen, Associate Professor

Department of Psychology, University of Sourthern Denmark

• Tonny Elmose Andersen