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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT04296344
Group Acupuncture Therapy With Modified Yoga (GAPYOGA)
Group Acupuncture Therapy With Modified Yoga for Chronic Neck, Low Back and OA Pain in Safety Net Setting for an Underserved Population (GAPYOGA)
Study Overview
Status
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The goal of this project is to assess the feasibility of a low-cost, integrative intervention for chronic pain that can be replicated and implemented in underserved medical settings across the U.S. Over the course of 18 months, the study team will recruit at least 150 outpatients with chronic pain from the Institute for Family Health (IFH) Family Medicine sites and Montefiore Medical Group sites, both Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). Treatment will consist of ten consecutive weekly group acupuncture therapy treatments. Yoga therapy treatments will start at week three and will consist of eight consecutive yoga therapy sessions that occur immediately following in a room adjacent to acupuncture therapy. Sessions are bundled to facilitate attendance that might be affected by two separate trips a week for participation. The primary outcome will be pain interference and pain intensity. Secondary outcomes will be pain free days, depression, functional status, patient activation, and pain medication utilization. These will be used during the pre-intervention phase, during which patients are receiving usual care only, and compared to the period after patients receive the combined acupuncture and yoga sessions. Data will be collected for 10 days before acupuncture and yoga therapy, and up to 24 weeks following the end of treatment.
The study will use a 'multiple settings across baseline' quasi-experimental design. This is a repeated measures design, and each study participant will have multiple pre- and post-measures. The multiple pre-measurement points allows the study team to document and monitor what may be variable patterns of pain pre-intervention. This design optimizes feasibility and acceptability to patients and participating health centers while still generating meaningful outcome data. Specifically, the study team has not proposed randomization within the practices, rather allowing sites to offer the intervention to all patients with target diagnoses who meet eligibility criteria. To collect pre-acupuncture assessments of pain, the study team will include a 10 day intake run-in period prior to the initial acupuncture session that ensures treatment within a time frame that is consistent with typical time to appointments for many consultations.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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New York
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Bronx, New York, United States, 10458
- Montefiore Family Health Center
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Bronx, New York, United States, 10469
- Williamsbridge Family Practice Center
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New York, New York, United States, 10035
- The Institute for Family Health
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients 21 years of age or older
- Chronic pain (three months or more in duration) due to a qualifying diagnosis of back pain, neck pain, and/or osteoarthritis.
- Eligible patients must be receiving primary care at a participating IFH or Montefiore Medical Group site
- Participants must understand and be able to provide consent in English or Spanish
- Reliable contact phone numbers must be available to facilitate scheduling,
- Availability for up to 10 weekly consecutive treatments and
- Availability for follow-up data collection at 24 weeks
Exclusion criteria:
- Receipt of acupuncture treatment or yoga instruction/therapy in the 6 months prior to recruitment
- Pregnancy
- Severe psychiatric problems as assessed by the study team (e.g., chronic interpersonal problems, cognitive impairment or active psychosis that is uncontrolled by medication that precludes the ability to provide informed consent or complete the survey instruments)
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
- Allocation: NA
- Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
- Masking: NONE
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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EXPERIMENTAL: Treatment
Participants with chronic pain to receive acupuncture therapy treatments and yoga therapy sessions.
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10 consecutive weekly group acupuncture therapy treatments
8 consecutive yoga therapy sessions that occur immediately following in a room adjacent to acupuncture therapy.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Brief Pain Inventory: Short Form
Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24
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The BPI is a nine-item measure which that asks patients to indicate how their pain influences function: select aspects of their everyday life including mood, walking, sleep and their ability to work over the past 24 hours, as well as the level and intensity of pain.
This measure will be adapted for use by phone, modifying a question which asks participants to refer to a diagram of the body.
total score from 0 to 10, with higher score indicating worse outcomes.
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Baseline and Week 24
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Change in Pain Free Days
Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24
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Self-report measure to report the number of pain free days in the previous 2 weeks.
This measure will be used pre- and post-intervention.
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Baseline and Week 24
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Change in Center for Epidemiological Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D)
Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24
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This is a well-validated, 20-item measure of depressive symptoms.
This will be used both at the initiation treatment interview and the end of the study.
Full score from 0- 20, with higher score indicating more symptomology.
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Baseline and Week 24
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Change in Altarum Consumer Engagement (ACE)
Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24
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A 12-item measure that assesses three domains of health engagement: commitment, informed choice, and navigation.
The measure covers areas not included in other surveys and it is a good predictor of current health status, lifestyle health behaviors, medication adherence, and how likely it is that people will use tools to support their decisions.
This measure will be adapted to include 8 of the 12 items on the questionnaire.
Full scale from 0-100, higher score indicates higher consumer engagement.
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Baseline and Week 24
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Change in Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS 10)
Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24
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A series of person-centered measures that evaluate and monitor physical, mental, and social health in adults and children.
10-item patient-reported questionnaire.
standardized to the general population, using the "T-Score".
The average "T-Score" for the United States population is 50 points, with a standard deviation of 10 points.
Higher scores indicate a healthier patient.
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Baseline and Week 24
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Change in PROMIS Satisfaction with Participation in Social Roles (PROMIS-SF)
Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24
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is a 14-item measure that is part of the PROMIS Social Function.
The measure refers to social roles, such as work and family responsibilities, and more discretionary social activities, such as leisure activity and relationships with friends.
standardized to the general population, using the "T-Score".
The average "T-Score" for the United States population is 50 points, with a standard deviation of 10 points.
Higher scores indicate a healthier patient.
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Baseline and Week 24
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Change in Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC)
Time Frame: Week 10 and Week 24
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Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC) is a single question 7-point categorical scale that captures a patient's experience of treatment at follow-up points, after all sessions are completed.
Full score from 0-7, with higher score indicating more improvement.
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Week 10 and Week 24
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Change in Medication Utilization
Time Frame: Baseline and Week 24
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Participants will be asked to report their use of pain medications over the prior one-week period.
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Baseline and Week 24
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Raymond Teets, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital
Publications and helpful links
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 (ACTUAL)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (ACTUAL)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- GCO 18-1240
- 02855405 (OTHER_GRANT: Blavatnik Family Foundation)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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