Comprehensive Study of Post-surgical Pain After Pectus or Spine Surgery

Genetic, Epigenetic, Psychosocial, and Biological Determinants of Post-surgical Pain After Pectus or Spine Surgery

This will be a prospective study to determine the association between specific genotypes, epigenetics, behavioral, social and biological factors, with the phenotypes, defined by pain perception, postoperative pain, analgesic effects, side effects to perioperative analgesics, chronic postoperative pain, and gene expression in patients following pectus excavatum repair.

Study Overview

Status

Enrolling by invitation

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This study will be a clinical prospective study. It is observational for all aims except with regard to the Meditation Intervention, which will be limited to 100 pectus and 100 spine participants (randomized to 50/50 in each arm). We will recruit 600 qualifying participants over the study period to acquire the necessary data to derive a predictive model matching phenotype to genotype. This study will not interfere with the standard anesthetic or perioperative care except for blood sampling from an indwelling line, and the use of additional integrative health procedures (focused-attention meditation guidance, as well as routine massage and breathing techniques) for the randomized meditation group. Research staff will administer psychosocial and somatosensory assessments, as well as record relevant data from participant's medical records. Integrative health will assist in teaching focused-attention meditation to the randomized meditation participants in the preoperative phase. Actigraphy devices will be provided to all participants, and MUSETM to those in the randomized meditation group. The pain team, in accordance with the Pectus Pain Management Protocol, will direct perioperative pain management.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

600

Phase

  • Not Applicable

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

    • Ohio
      • Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229
        • Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center

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

8 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children aged 8 years of age through adulthood
  • Diagnosis of pectus excavatum or adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
  • Scheduled for endoscopic pectus excavatum repair or spine fusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • History of or active renal or liver disease
  • Major surgery requiring opioids in the last 5 years
  • Severe respiratory problems (such as obstructive sleep apnea, cystic fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, or pneumonia within the last month)
  • Cardiac conditions including, but not limited to, cyanotic heart disease, hypoplastic left ventricle, arrhythmia, hypertension with ongoing treatment, Kawasaki disease, or cardiomyopathies. Participants with asymptomatic valvular lesions or defects may be included
  • History of seizures currently treated on medication (participants off medication and seizure free for greater than one year may be included)
  • Taking no more than two concomitant medications known to induce or inhibit CYP2D6 activity, including paroxetine, fluoxetine, cimetidine, and duloxetine
  • Needing postoperative ventilation or intraoperative cardiac bypass standby
  • BMI >35
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding females
  • Non-English speaking
  • Definite developmental delay

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: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control
Participants in the control group will receive present standard of care, which includes an assessment of participant/family needs by integrative care after surgery, as well as standard holistic health care by a licensed/certified holistic health specialist. They will not receive the MUSETM focused-attention meditation training or intervention protocol.
Experimental: Meditation
Participants randomized to receive focused-attention meditation training will attend a preoperative training session, provided by a licensed/certified Holistic Health Specialist. The content will include an age appropriate explanation of focused-attention meditation, using breath as the focus; set-up and utilization of the MUSETM headband; and experiential practices. The goal of the intervention is to increase mindfulness (i.e., moment-to-moment, non-judgmental and non-reactive awareness of sensations, emotions, and thoughts), provide self-regulation strategies, and promote healthy and adaptive responses to stress.
Participants assigned to the Meditation intervention will receive focused attention meditation training preoperatively, and encouraged to meditate for 20 minutes per day before surgery. In the postoperative inpatient period, the participants will be offered standard holistic health care, reinforcement of meditation training, and encouragement to practice at least 20 minutes of guided focused-attention meditation with breath as their focus, utilizing the MUSETM headband for bio-feedback, every day during their hospital stay. They will be asked to continue using the MUSETM neurofeedback-assisted meditation after hospital discharge, until their visit to repeat pain testing, at which time they will return the MUSETM headband.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Pain score trajectory
Time Frame: 1 year
Pain scores will be collected preoperatively through 1 year postoperatively
1 year
Changes in self-reported psychosocial scores (including anxiety, pain, coping, physical limitation, etc.)
Time Frame: 1 year
Psychosocial measures will be collected preoperatively through 1 year postoperatively
1 year
Changes in heart rate variability
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Heart rate variability will be assessed preoperatively and postoperatively
8 weeks
Changes in mean amplitude values for lower, upper, and entire alpha frequency bands by group (intervention/no intervention) and time (pre-surgery/post-surgery)
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Brain activity will be assessed preoperatively and postoperatively
8 weeks
Changes in evoked response potentials (ERPs) during meditation and experimental pain tasks
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Brain activity will be assessed preoperatively and postoperatively
8 weeks
Changes in sleep efficiency/duration (actigraphy) and self-reported sleep quality
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Sleep efficiency and quality will be assessed preoperatively and postoperatively
8 weeks
Incidence of side-effect measures
Time Frame: 72 hours postoperatively
Incidences of respiratory depression, sedation, postoperative nausea and vomiting will be collected during the recovery phase
72 hours postoperatively

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Changes in pressure pain threshold, conditioned pain modulation, tactile discrimination, and temporal summation index
Time Frame: 8 weeks
Quantitative sensory testing will be assessed preoperatively and postoperatively
8 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

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Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Vidya Chidambaran, MD, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

July 6, 2018

Primary Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2024

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 31, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 20, 2018

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 23, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

July 24, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 10, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 9, 2024

Last Verified

January 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

De-identified data may be shared with additional internal or external data warehouses/investigators. These include but are not limited to the i2b2-Research Data Warehouse protocol at CCHMC (IRB 2008-0834) for the purpose of linking this data to de-identified copies of the participants' electronic medical records via an i2b2 database. The resulting de-identified i2b2 database will not be part of this research, and will be used to explore secondary phenotypes in future research studies and the NIH-db-GaP (Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes).

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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