Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Programme in Danish Chronic Pain Patients
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01306747 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: March 2, 2011
Last Update Posted
: June 13, 2016
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The effect of the Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Programme (CPSMP) is tested in a randomized controlled trial with enrollment of Danish chronic pain patients. A total of 500 chronic pain patients is randomized into either an CPSMP intervention group or a control group.
The CPSMP is brief patient education program consisting of 6 weekly sessions. Two trained instructors teach a group of 8-16 chronic pain patients about managing pain. The instructors are not health professionals but chronic pain patient themselves. The program is highly structured and manualized.
Previous studies have shown beneficial effects of the CPSMP on pain, self-efficacy and well-being. Hence we expect the CPSMP to have an effect on various domains.
- Symptom reduction - lower self-reported pain in the CPSMP group compared to controls
- Illness perception - the cpsmp group will differ from controls in illness perception and have higher disease related self-efficacy
- Sickness behavior - the cpsmp group will have fewer sick days and lower health care utilization (estimated by registerbased data)than controls
- Quality of life - the cpsmp group will report higher life satisfaction and less social isolation than controls
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Chronic Pain | Behavioral: The Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Programme | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 500 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Programme in Danish Chronic Pain Patients |
Study Start Date : | February 2011 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | August 2012 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | December 2015 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Chronic Pain Self-Management |
Behavioral: The Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Programme
The Stanford CPSMP is a patient education program consisting of six 2½ hour weekly sessions. Two trained instructors teach a group of 8-16 persons about managing pain.
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No Intervention: Control group |
- Decrease in score on the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (Roland & Morris, 1983) [ Time Frame: 10 weeks follow-up ]
- Decrease in score on the Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire (Roland & Morris, 1983) [ Time Frame: 6 months follow-up ]
- Increase in score on pain related self-efficacy questionnaire (Lorig et al., 1989) [ Time Frame: 10 weeks follow-up ]
- Increase in score on pain related self-efficacy questionnaire (Lorig et al., 1989) [ Time Frame: 6 months follow-up ]
- Register-based data on visits to GP after intervention (Danish National Register of Health Care utilization) [ Time Frame: 6-months follow-up ]
- Register-based data on use of prescribed drugs after intervention (Danish National Register of Health Care utilization) [ Time Frame: 6 months follow-up ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pain in more than 3 months
- Self-reported pain > 4.99 on 10 point Likert scale
- Age > 18 years old
- Able to understand, speak, and read Danish
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pain related to conditions that the patient are likely to consider more important than pain itself, e.g. pregnancy, cancer in acute phases
- Drug abuse, psychiatric or physical disease that would prevent participation in weekly sessions
- Drug abuse, psychiatric or physical disease that would disturb completion of group sessions

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01306747
Denmark | |
The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital | |
Aarhus, Denmark, Dk8000 |
Study Director: | Per Fink, DMSc | Aarhus University Hospital |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | University of Aarhus |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01306747 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
TACKLE2011 |
First Posted: | March 2, 2011 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | June 13, 2016 |
Last Verified: | June 2016 |
Keywords provided by University of Aarhus:
Chronic pain Stanford chronic pain self-management programme Patient education |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Chronic Pain Pain Neurologic Manifestations Nervous System Diseases Signs and Symptoms |