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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT01992770
A Stepped-care Model of Tailored Behavioural Medicine Pain Intervention in Primary Care (STEP-UP)
STEP-UP - A Randomised Controlled Trial for the Study of a Stepped-care Model Including a Tailored Behavioural Medicine Pain Intervention in Primary Care
Background:
This study is based on an innovative stepped-care protocol for the management of musculoskeletal pain in primary care, which is evaluated in a RCT. The intervention have two core features: it is theory-driven and include systematic tailoring of treatment content. The tailoring is based on a combination of empirically supported behavioural and medical determinants of pain-related disability and patients' individual perceptions on personal goals, facilitators and barriers for health behavior change. In this application, the intervention is labelled tailored behavioural medicine intervention (TBM).
Objectives:
The aim is to compare effects and cost-effectiveness of a stepped care model including advice and tailored behavioral medicine pain treatment (experimental condition) with a stepped care model including advice and physical exercises (comparison condition) for patients with low back and neck pain and/or widespread pain including fibromyalgia in primary care. A further aim is to characterize patients who benefit/do not benefit from the respective steps i.e. treatments varying in dose and content.
Methods:
A stratified randomized stepped care design is applied. Stratification is based on primary care center and patient risk profile. A consecutive selection is performed at primary care centers in southern, central and northern Sweden. According to power analysis, 364 participants should be recruited to allow for sub-group analyses. After having received a minimal intervention (step 1) comprising 'stay-active advice', participants scoring >90 on the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (ÖMPQ) are randomly allocated to an eight-week treatment in step 2. The experimental condition includes supervised physical exercises integrated with either (a) graded activity, or (b) hierarchical graded exposure depending on risk profile, i.e. absence or presence of pain catastrophizing and fear-avoidance beliefs. The comparison condition includes supervised physical exercises irrespective of risk profile. Primary outcome is pain-related disability complemented with a comprehensive set of secondary outcomes adhering to the IMMPACT recommendations. Assessments will be made by personnel blinded for treatment condition at baseline, after step 1 and 2 respectively, and at 12- and 24-month follow-ups.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
STEP-UP: An innovative stepped-care model for tailored behavioral medicine treatment in the management of musculoskeletal pain in primary care
Background:
Multimodal rehabilitation and tailored behavioral medicine treatments should be provided to patients suffering from persistent and activity limiting pain according to current state-of-science. There is also evidence that a simple and specific 'stay-active advice' can produce effects comparable to effects of comprehensive treatment packages. Nevertheless, there is a gap of knowledge regarding which individuals who benefit the most from which modalities of pain treatment, at what time point, and with the highest cost-effectiveness. Accordingly, we have set up an innovative stepped-care protocol for the management of musculoskeletal pain in primary care, which is evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. The intervention have two core features: it is theory-driven and include systematic tailoring of treatment content. The tailoring is based on a combination of empirically supported behavioural and medical determinants of pain-related disability and patients' individual perceptions on personal goals, facilitators and barriers for HBC. In this application, the intervention is labelled tailored behavioural medicine intervention (TBM).
Main objectives
- To compare the short- (post-treatment) and long-term effects (12 and 24 months follow-ups) of TBM and physical exercise treatment on everyday life activity, health related quality of life, pain severity, and sick leave (main analysis).
- To study whether TBM tailored according to any of two pre-defined patient risk profiles: "the catastrophising/fear-avoidance profile" and "the moderate to high disability profile" are more effective compared to physical exercise treatment (sub- group analysis).
- To characterize patients who benefit/do not benefit from (1) a minimal intervention including advice, (2) TBM and physical exercise treatment respectively
- To identify potential moderators (e.g. pain duration, sex, outcome expectations) and mediators (e.g. catastrophising, fear of movement, self-efficacy) of treatment effects.
- To study the cost-effectiveness within the experimental trial i.e. for the TBM versus the physical exercise treatment over the entire study period (up to 24-month follow- up).
Methods:
A stratified randomized stepped care design is applied. Stratification is based on primary care center and patient risk profile. A consecutive selection is performed at primary care centers in southern, central and northern Sweden. According to power analysis, 364 participants should be recruited to allow for sub-group analyses. After having received a minimal intervention (step 1) comprising 'stay-active advice', participants scoring >90 on the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (ÖMPQ) are randomly allocated to an eight-week treatment in step 2. The experimental condition includes supervised physical exercises integrated with either (a) graded activity, or (b) hierarchical graded exposure depending on risk profile, i.e. absence or presence of pain catastrophizing and fear-avoidance beliefs. The comparison condition includes supervised physical exercises irrespective of risk profile. Primary outcome is pain-related disability complemented with a comprehensive set of secondary outcomes adhering to the IMMPACT recommendations. Assessments will be made by personnel blinded for treatment condition at baseline, after step 1 and 2 respectively, and at 12- and 24-month follow-ups.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Uppsala, Sweden
- Uppsala University
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- musculoskeletal pain from the low back, neck or with widespread locations
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients scoring high on the Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS; > 35 or > 4 on the suicidal risk item)
- patients suffering from other psychiatric or severe medical co-morbidity (e.g. cancer)
- patients presenting a history and physical symptoms indicating serious spinal pathology (red flags) implying further diagnostic examination or acute measures.
- patients not being able to read, write and discuss their everyday life situation in Swedish or accepting an interpreter are not included
- patients who have completed multimodal treatments due to the current pain condition during the past two years.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: RANDOMIZED
- Interventional Model: PARALLEL
- Masking: SINGLE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: Tailored behavioural medicine
After having received a minimal intervention (step 1) comprising 'stay-active advice', participants scoring >90 on the Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (ÖMPQ) are randomly allocated to an eight-week treatment in step 2, depending on risk profile.
The experimental condition includes supervised physical exercises integrated with either (a) graded activity, or (b) hierarchical graded exposure depending on risk profile, i.e. absence or presence of pain catastrophizing and fear-avoidance beliefs.
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Individual Behavioural goal identification, depending on risk profile (1a). "Catastrophising and/or fear-avoidance" (2); hierarchical graded exposure, organized with individual coaching in connection to the physical training sessions, based on activities that each participant fear and/or avoid. Individual Behavioural goal identification, depending on risk profile (1b) "Graded activity";(2) self-monitoring of everyday life activities (3) functional behavioural analyses to describe, predict, and verify factors controlling patient's current and future activity performance (4) training of motor skills, cognitive skills, and strategies to organise everyday life including social support. (5) gradual application of acquired skills in everyday life situations as formulated by Specific, Measureable, Activity-related, Realistic, and Time- specified (SMART) goal setting (6) generalisation of skills to additional activities and challenging situations, and (7) strategies for maintenance and relapse prevention.
Participants will be scheduled for supervised, regular physical training twice a week during eight weeks 8
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ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Control group
Participants will be scheduled for supervised, regular Physical exercises twice a week during eight weeks 8. Participants with a "moderate to high disability" risk profile will receive: Tailored graded activities training.
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Participants will be scheduled for supervised, regular physical training twice a week during eight weeks 8
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Changes in pain-related disability including pain severity
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Pain Disability Index The Chronic Pain Grade The Patient Priority Goal Questionnaire (Patient-specific measure for the study of clinical significance and goal attainment)
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Health related quality of life
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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SF-36
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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General health perceptions
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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EQ5D
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Sick-absence and disability pension
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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patients self-reports of shorter sick-leave (sick-leave under 14 days), and sick-leave data collected from the Swedish Social Insurance Administration after permission from the Data Inspectorate
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Pain intensity
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Numerical rating scale (0-10), maximum, minimum average pain during past two weeks
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Participants´rating of global improvement and satisfactions with treatment
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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The Patient Global Impression of Change Scale
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Physical activity
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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IPAQ, Daily physical activity log
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Sick-leave
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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patients self-reports of shorter sick-leave (sick-leave under 14 days), and sick-leave data collected from the Swedish Social Insurance Administration after permission from the Data Inspectorate
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Prognostic factors
Time Frame: baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Self-efficacy for functional activities (The Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire) Fear-avoidance beliefs (The Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia) Catastrophising (The Pain Catastrophizing Scale) Anxiety and depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale , anxiety subscale) Clinical depression (The Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)) Psychosocial prognostic factors (Örebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (ÖMPC), screening for risk profiles)
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baseline, after 2 week, post-treatment, 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Demographic and background factors
Time Frame: baseline
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Study specific questionnaire Life-style habits, according to the national Board of Health and Welfare Personality traits (Swedish Universities Scale of Personality)
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baseline
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Costs
Time Frame: 12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Direct costs: Cost diary (including short term sick-leave), Costs for rehabilitation and production loss will be incorporated in total COSTs Indirect COSTs: SSIA registry, Standardized price labels
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12 months follow-up, 24 months follow-up
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Pernilla Åsenlöf, Professor, Uppsala University
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (ACTUAL)
Primary Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Completion (ACTUAL)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (ESTIMATE)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 2012/448
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