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- Clinical Trial NCT01316471
Internet Intervention for Adolescents With Chronic Pain
October 2, 2018 updated by: Tonya Palermo, Seattle Children's Hospital
Web-MAP 2: Internet Intervention for Adolescents With Chronic Pain
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a web-based (i.e., internet) behavioral program to reduce pain and improve functioning in children and adolescents with chronic pain.
We hypothesize that children and adolescents in families that receive the web-based behavioral program will report reduced pain levels and improved daily functioning compared to children and their parents who receive online patient education.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
An estimated 15% to 30% of otherwise healthy children and adolescents suffer from recurrent or chronic pain such as headache, abdominal pain, and musculoskeletal pain.
Chronic pain has a significant impact on children's mood, daily functioning, and overall quality of life.
Effective behavioral interventions have been developed to increase positive coping behaviors.
However, most children do not have access to these interventions due to a variety of barriers such as distance from pediatric pain treatment centers.
We have developed an online behavioral intervention called Web-based Management of Adolescent Pain (Web-MAP), and our preliminary findings indicated that children in families that received this intervention experienced significant improvements in their pain level and daily functioning compared to children who did not receive the intervention (Palermo et al., 2009).
The purpose of this study is to extend these findings by: 1) recruiting families from other medical centers, 2) determining whether the benefits of online behavioral intervention are maintained 6- and 12-months after the intervention has been completed, 3) evaluating additional outcomes such as parent responses to pain and child sleep quality, anxiety, depression, and health service use, 4) comparing results from online behavioral intervention to online patient education.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
273
Phase
- Phase 2
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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Washington
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Seattle, Washington, United States, 98105
- Seattle Children's Hospital
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
11 years to 17 years (Child)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Literate in English
- Age 11-17 years
- Pain present for at least 3 months duration
- Pain occurs at least 1 time per week and interferes with daily functioning
- Pain is not related to a chronic disease
- Receiving evaluation or treatment in a pediatric pain clinic
- Has access to a computer, the Internet, and a phone
Exclusion Criteria:
- A serious comorbid chronic condition in the patient (e.g., diabetes, arthritis, cancer).
- Non-English speaking
- More than 4 sessions of CBT for pain management in the 6 months prior to the time of screening.
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Online Behavioral Intervention
In addition to standard medical care, children and parents in the online behavioral intervention will receive access to the full web-based program including education about chronic pain, training in behavioral and cognitive coping skills, instruction in increasing activity participation, and education about pain behaviors and parental operant strategies using an engaging, interactive format on the Internet.
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The online behavioral intervention is travel-themed and participants visit 8 destinations (1 per week) designed to take 30 min each to complete.
The destinations serve as an online analog for the weekly sessions used when delivering behavioral interventions face-to-face.
The 8 child destinations include: 1) education about chronic pain, 2) recognizing stress and negative emotions, 3) relaxation and distraction skills, 4) school, 5) cognitive skills, 6) sleep hygiene and lifestyle, 7) staying active, and 8) relapse prevention.
The eight parent destinations include: 1) education about chronic pain, 2) recognizing stress and negative emotions, 3) operant strategies I, 4) operant strategies II, 5) modeling, 6) sleep hygiene and lifestyle, 7) communication, and 8) relapse prevention.
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Active Comparator: Online Patient Education
The Online Patient Education group will serve as an attention control condition.
In addition to standard medical care, children and parents will be provided with access to a modified version of the study website that will provide information from publicly available educational websites about pediatric chronic pain management.
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The purpose of the online patient education group is to control for time, attention, and computer usage.
Children and parents will be provided with access to a modified version of the study website that will provide links to information from publicly available educational websites about pediatric chronic pain management.
Children and parents will log onto the web program weekly at the same interval as the Online Behavioral Intervention group.
Children and parents will be asked to view 3 links each week and then report a few details pertaining to the content of what they viewed.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Activity limitations
Time Frame: pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Child report of activity limitations will be assessed using the prospective version of the Child Activity Limitations Interview (Palermo, Witherspoon, Valenzuela, & Drotar, 2004), which includes 8 activities that children identify as important in their day-to-day lives that are impacted by pain.
Responses are rated on a 5-point scale (0-4) with higher scores indicating greater perceived difficulty with activities.
Children will provide ratings daily for 7 days on their online diaries at each assessment period.
Mean activity limitations across the reporting period is used in analyses.
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pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Pain intensity
Time Frame: pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Children will report on presence and intensity of pain daily for 7 days at each assessment period.
Pain intensity will be assessed using an 11-point numerical rating scale (NRS) with anchors of 0= no pain to 10= worst pain (McGrath et al., 2008).
Mean average intensity of the pain reported will serve as primary pain measure.
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pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Depression and pain-specific anxiety
Time Frame: pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Children will complete the Bath Adolescent Pain Questionnaire (BAPQ), a 61-item scale that will be used to measure pain-specific emotional functioning (Eccleston et al., 2005).
The BAPQ was developed specifically for children with chronic pain and has demonstrated adequate reliability and validity (Eccleston et al., 2008).
For the purpose of this study, the subscales of depression and pain-specific anxiety will be used in analyses.
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pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Treatment Satisfaction
Time Frame: Immediately Post-Treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Children and parents will complete this questionnaire, which includes items that address satisfaction with the therapeutic process during the course of treatment and satisfaction with the outcome of therapy.
Items are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree.
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Immediately Post-Treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Parental Response to Pain Behavior
Time Frame: pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Children and their parents will complete the Adult Responses to Children's Symptoms (ARCS), a 29-item measure assessing parental responses to child pain behavior (Walker, Levy, & Whitehead, 2006).
Respondents rate on a five-point Likert scale the frequency with which parents engage in specific behaviors in response to their child's pain.
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pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Sleep Quality
Time Frame: pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Children's perception of sleep quality will be measured by the Adolescent Sleep Wake Scale (LeBourgeois et al., 2005), a 28-item self-report scale that assesses five behavioral dimensions of teens' sleep: going to bed, falling asleep, maintaining sleep, reinitiating sleep, and returning to wakefulness.
Subscale scores range from 1 to 6, with higher scores indicating better sleep quality.
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pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Health service Use
Time Frame: pre-treatment, 12-month follow-up
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Parents will complete the Client Service Receipt Inventory-Pain version (Sleed et al., 2005), a measure of service use, out-of-pocket expenses, and lost work time incurred by families for the evaluation or management of the child's chronic pain.
Questions pertain to hospital admissions, outpatient services, community services (e.g., tutor, lawyer), medications, lost work time, paid help, and other costs.
We will compute the following variables: total number of services used, number of lost parental work days, and number of out-of-pocket expenses.
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pre-treatment, 12-month follow-up
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Miscarried Helping
Time Frame: pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Parents and adolescents will complete the Helping for Health Inventory (Harris et al., 2008), a 15-item scale that measures miscarried helping or negative social support.
Respondents rate on a 5-point scale the frequency with which parents engage in certain behaviors or feel certain ways pertaining to their child's health.
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pre-treatment, immediately post-treatment, 6-month follow-up, 12-month follow-up
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Tonya M. Palermo, Ph.D., University of Washington Medical School
Publications and helpful links
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General Publications
- Palermo TM, Law EF, Zhou C, Holley AL, Logan D, Tai G. Trajectories of change during a randomized controlled trial of internet-delivered psychological treatment for adolescent chronic pain: how does change in pain and function relate? Pain. 2015 Apr;156(4):626-634. doi: 10.1097/01.j.pain.0000460355.17246.6c.
- Law EF, Groenewald CB, Zhou C, Palermo TM. Effect on Health Care Costs for Adolescents Receiving Adjunctive Internet-Delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial. J Pain. 2018 Aug;19(8):910-919. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2018.03.004. Epub 2018 Mar 22.
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start
May 1, 2011
Primary Completion (Actual)
November 1, 2015
Study Completion (Actual)
November 1, 2015
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
March 11, 2011
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
March 14, 2011
First Posted (Estimate)
March 16, 2011
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
October 3, 2018
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
October 2, 2018
Last Verified
October 1, 2018
More Information
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Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- R01HD062538-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.
No
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