Singing for Chronic Pain, a New Intervention for the Management of Chronic Pain

Experimental: Intevention

To see if singing can be used as a detractive method from patients experiencing ongoing pain.

Sonstiges: Singing

To investigate whether singing can help people to manage their chronic pain the applicants, working together with people with chronic pain, have developed a singing intervention, Singing for Chronic Pain (SCP). The development of the programme has been supported by Snape Moultings, an international centre for the arts which offered the team a residency to develop the programme (https://snapemaltings.co.uk/music/residencies/). The model takes a holistic approach using voice and singing, movement, sound, mindfulness and breath work to provide opportunities to connect body, voice, breath and mind. This is important given that people often use body dissociation as a way to cope with physical pain

Completion rate

Measure of attendance at sessions

Consent rate

Measure of those offered the programme who consent to take part

Self reported self efficacy

Pain Self-efficacy questionnaire

Self reported ability to self-manage pain

Patient Activation Measure questionnaire

Increased mindfulness Increased mindfulness Increased mindfulness

Frieburg Mindfulness questionnaire

Self reported well-being

Edinburgh Warwick Well-being questionnaire

Self reported anxiety depression

Hospital Anxiety and Depression questionnaire.The HADS is a fourteen item scale that generates ordinal data. Seven of the items relate to anxiety and seven relate to depression. Anxiety scores and depression scores can range for 0 -21 with a higher score being worse. The separate depression and anxiety scores scores can be combined to give an overall score.

Self reported quality of life

EQ5D Quality of Life Questionnaire The EQ-5D questionnaire has two components: health state description and evaluation.Health status is measured in terms of five dimensions (5D); mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression. The respondents self-rate their level of severity for each dimension using three-level (EQ-5D-3L) or five-level (EQ-5D-5L) scale.

In the evaluation part, the respondents evaluate their overall health status using the visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS).he answers given to ED-5D permit to find 243 unique health states or can be converted into EQ-5D index an utility scores anchored at 0 for death and 1 for perfect health. The EQ-5D questionnaire also includes a Visual Analog Scale (VAS), by which respondents can report their perceived health status with a grade ranging from 0 (the worst possible health status) to 100 (the best possible health status).

Patient Focus Group

At week 10, participants will be invited to take part in a 60 minute focus group led by an experienced researcher. The focus groups will explore participants' perception of the programme and its outcomes, reasons for noncompliance, instrument appropriateness and suggestions for programme improvement