Evaluation of Individual Health Coaching Sessions Provided by a Patient Expert As Part of Therapeutic Education for Patients Registered At the Chronic Pain Consultation (COADOL)

As Part of Therapeutic Education for Patients Registered At the Chronic Pain Consultation

Chronic pain is defined as a persistent sensory and emotional experience, lasting for more than three months, and often resistant to treatment. It can result from various conditions, including life-threatening diseases, accidents, or therapeutic procedures like surgery or chemotherapy. Chronic pain significantly impacts a patient's physical and psychological well-being, often leading to body image issues and functional deterioration in daily activities, both at home and at work or school. The World Health Organization recognized chronic pain as a disease in 2019. Chronic pain patients must adapt to their condition, acquiring new skills and knowledge through therapeutic education. Group sessions, a key part of therapeutic education, help break the isolation felt by many patients, fostering shared experiences and mutual support. Since 2015, the Saint-Joseph Hospital's chronic pain consultation has offered group education workshops, inspired by those at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. However, many patients struggle to apply new skills independently after these workshops. In response, individualized coaching was introduced in 2020. This approach, led by a health coach who is also an expert patient, provides personalized support to help patients set and achieve realistic goals, fostering active engagement in their lives through tailored strategies and ongoing support.

The main aim of this pilot study is to assess the quantitative and qualitative contribution of personalized support by an "expert patient" chronic pain coach (individual coaching), on the functional and emotional impact and emotional impact of their pain, in patients followed up in a chronic pain consultation and having group therapeutic education workshops.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Chronic Pain
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: individual coaching

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Estimated): 30

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Anne COUTAUX, Dr; Phone Number: +33144123193; Email: acoutaux@ghpsj.fr

Study Locations

• France
  • Paris, France, 75014
    • Recruiting
    • Hopital Saint Joseph
    • Contact: Juliette COURTIADE MAHLER, PhD; Phone Number: +3344127963; Email: jcourtiade@ghpsj.fr

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients followed in chronic pain consultations referred to the therapeutic education workshops

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient aged ≥ 18 years
• Patients followed in chronic pain consultations referred to the therapeutic education workshops
• Patient affiliated with a health insurance plan
• French-speaking patient
• Patient capable of giving oral, informed, and explicit consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient with psychiatric disorders making inclusion in group workshops impossible
• Patient unwilling to participate in individual coaching sessions Patient under guardianship or curatorship Patient deprived of liberty Patient under legal protection Pregnant or breastfeeding patient

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
individual coaching	Other: individual coaching; in addition to group therapeutic education, the patient participates to individual coaching session and answers several Patient Reported Outcome to assess his wellbeing

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
BPI (Brief Pain Inventotry )	evaluation of functional and emotional impact of pain assess with the Brief Pain inventory on a scale from 0 to 10	enrollment, 4, 6 and 12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): February 3, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): January 15, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): January 15, 2027

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 30, 2025
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 30, 2025
• First Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 5, 2025
• Last Verified: February 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

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

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

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