Validation of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) in the Greek Population

Greek Validation of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) in the Intensive Care Unit Setting

The aim of this study is to validate the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) in the setting of the Intensive care unit (ICU). Prior to patient recruitment the tool will be translated by the method of translation-back translation by Greek and English native speakers. The tool will be administered to patients who are admitted into the ICU.

Study Overview

• Status: Suspended
• Conditions: Pain; Intensive Care Units
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: Critical care pain observation tool

Detailed Description

The aim of this study is to validate the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) in the setting of the Intensive care unit (ICU). Prior to patient recruitment the tool will be translated by the method of translation-back translation by Greek and English native speakers. The study is designed as a prospective randomized crossover clinical trial. Patients will be randomly allocated into two study groups. In Group I the CPOT tool is administered prior to a painful stimulus (ITime0), during the painful stimulus (ITime1) and soon afterwards (ITime2).In Group II the CPOT tool is administered prior to a non painful stimulus(IITime0), during a non-painful stimulus (IITime1) and soon afterwards (IITime2). After these trials the patients in the two groups will crossover into the other group and the whole process will be repeated. The painful stimulus is set to be the passive turning of the patient into the bed and the non painful stimulus is the cleaning of the arm or leg. 20 minutes afterwards the CPOT tool is administered once again in both groups in order to obtain the values when there is no stimulus (ITime3). The tool is administered by two trained members of the study team in a blind manner. Both of the observers administer the tool at the same time but one of them is positioned in the ward of the patient and the other one behind a curtain with no contact with the observer but only with the patient and the monitor.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 74
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Greece
  • Athens, Greece
    • Saint Savvas Anticancer Hospital of Athens

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients admitted in the ICU
• Age> 18 years old
• No hearing or visual deficit
• No contraindication to body repositioning

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with neurological deficit
• Patients administered with neuromuscular blocking agents
• Patients with motor or sensory deficits

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
• Masking: Triple

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Group Painful stimulus; The CPOT tool is administered in a crossover manner in Group one prior to a painful stimulus (IT0), during the painful stimulus (IT1) and soon afterwards (IT2)	Diagnostic test: Critical care pain observation tool; The CPOT tool is administered in a crossover manner by two study observers
Experimental: Group Non-painful stimulus; The CPOT tool is administered in a crossover manner in Group one prior to a non-painful stimulus (IIT0), during the painful stimulus (IIT1) and soon afterwards (IIT2)	Diagnostic test: Critical care pain observation tool; The CPOT tool is administered in a crossover manner by two study observers

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Greek validation of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) in the ICU patients	Validation of the Greek version of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) for assessing the pain in the intensive care unit patients.Maximum score 8 points.For those patients with a CPOT score of ≤ 2:There is likely minimal to no pain present.For those patients with a CPOT score of >2:There is a medium to severe level of pain.	The CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) is administered 1 minute prior to a painful stimulus (ITime0) which is set to be the patient's bed repositioning
Greek validation of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) in the ICU patients	Validation of the Greek version of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) for assessing the pain in the intensive care unit patients.Maximum score 8 points.For those patients with a CPOT score of ≤ 2:There is likely minimal to no pain present.For those patients with a CPOT score of >2:There is a medium to severe level of pain.	The CPOT tool(Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) is administered 10 seconds after a painful stimulus (ITime1) which is set to be the patient's bed repositioning
Greek validation of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) in the ICU patients	Validation of the Greek version of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) for assessing the pain in the intensive care unit patients.Maximum score 8 points.For those patients with a CPOT score of ≤ 2:There is likely minimal to no pain present.For those patients with a CPOT score of >2:There is a medium to severe level of pain.	The CPOT tool(Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) is administered 1 minute after a painful stimulus (ITime2) which is set to be the patient's bed repositioning
Greek validation of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) in the ICU patients	Validation of the Greek version of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) for assessing the pain in the intensive care unit patients.Maximum score 8 points.For those patients with a CPOT score of ≤ 2:There is likely minimal to no pain present.For those patients with a CPOT score of >2:There is a medium to severe level of pain.	The CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool)is administered 20 minutes after a painful stimulus (ITime3) which is set to be the patient's bed repositioning
Greek validation of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) in the ICU patients	Validation of the Greek version of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) for assessing the pain in the intensive care unit patients.Maximum score 8 points.For those patients with a CPOT score of ≤ 2:There is likely minimal to no pain present.For those patients with a CPOT score of >2:There is a medium to severe level of pain.	The CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool)is administered 1 minute prior to a non painful stimulus (IITime0) which is set to be the patient's blood pressure measurement
Greek validation of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) in the ICU patients	Validation of the Greek version of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) for assessing the pain in the intensive care unit patients.Maximum score 8 points.For those patients with a CPOT score of ≤ 2:There is likely minimal to no pain present.For those patients with a CPOT score of >2:There is a medium to severe level of pain.	The CPOT tool(Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) is administered 10 seconds after a non painful stimulus (IITime1) which is set to be the patient's blood pressure measurement
Greek validation of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) in the ICU patients	Validation of the Greek version of the CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) for assessing the pain in the intensive care unit patients.Maximum score 8 points.For those patients with a CPOT score of ≤ 2:There is likely minimal to no pain present.For those patients with a CPOT score of >2:There is a medium to severe level of pain.	The CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool)is administered 1 minute after a painful stimulus (IITime2) which is set to be the patient's blood pressure measurement

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Correlation of physiological parameters to CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) values	Physiological parameters as mean arterial blood pressure (MAP in mmHg) will be recorded in all patients. In order to calculate the mean arterial pressure, systolic and diastolic pressures will be recorded in the time periods of the assessment.	The recordings will be performed 1 minute before, 10 seconds after, 1 minute after and 20 minutes after a painful and a non painful stimulus
Correlation of numeric pain rating scale (NPRS) to CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool)values	NPRS scale (0 equals no pain and 10 equals maximum pain possible)will be performed in all patients that are able to communicate in order to correlate the results with those of the CPOT tool	The recordings will be performed 1 minute before, 10 seconds after, 1 minute after and 20 minutes after a painful and a non painful stimulus
Correlation of physiological parameters to CPOT tool(Critical Care Pain Observation Tool) values	Physiological parameters as heart rate will be recorded in all patients.	The recordings will be performed 1 minute before, 10 seconds after, 1 minute after and 20 minutes after a painful and a non painful stimulus
Correlation of physiological parameters to CPOT tool (Critical Care Pain Observation Tool)values	Physiological parameters as respiratory rate will be recorded in all patients	The recordings will be performed 1 minute before, 10 seconds after, 1 minute after and 20 minutes after a painful and a non painful stimulus

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Saint Savvas Anticancer Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Georgia Micha, MD, MSc, PhD, Saint Savvas Anticancer Hospital of Athens

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Gelinas C, Fillion L, Puntillo KA. Item selection and content validity of the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool for non-verbal adults. J Adv Nurs. 2009 Jan;65(1):203-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04847.x. Epub 2008 Nov 15.
• Kanji S, MacPhee H, Singh A, Johanson C, Fairbairn J, Lloyd T, MacLean R, Rosenberg E. Validation of the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool in Critically Ill Patients With Delirium: A Prospective Cohort Study. Crit Care Med. 2016 May;44(5):943-7. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001522.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 1, 2018
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): October 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 16, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 29, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): August 31, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 31, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 28, 2020
• Last Verified: March 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Neurologic Manifestations; Pain
• Other Study ID Numbers: StSavvasAH

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No