Development of a Questionnaire to Measure Hypervigilance for Visceral Pain

July 19, 2010 updated by: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The aim of this study is to develop and validate a questionnaire (non-invasive technique) to identify patients who are hypervigilant for noxious visceral sensations and who show a lower threshold to report pain. This questionnaire would be useful in studies investigating the role of visceral pain hypervigilance and pain sensitivity in the comorbidity of IBS with other somatic disorders.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Detailed Description

Methods: There are two phases to the project: (1) Development of the pool of items (questions), and (2) validating individual items based on their correlation with an objective gold standard - the response criterion statistic, B, calculated from a barostat test of pain sensitivity. We will perform barostat tests of pain thresholds and other measures of pain sensitivity that are based on sensory decision theory analysis in a relatively large group of 84 IBS patients. Sensory decision theory divides pain perception into two components: a perceptual sensitivity index (P(A)) and a response criterion (B). The response criterion is sensitive to cognitive and psychological influences on pain perception. We will use this index (B) as the gold standard against which to select items for a scale to measure hypervigilance for visceral pain. The process will involve (a) pooling items from existing questionnaires that seem related to the concept, (b) obtaining additional questions from consultants who are experts in visceral perception and psychometric test development, (c) identifying the items that show the strongest correlations with the response criterion, (d using principal components analysis to reduce the items to the smallest number of non-redundant items that predict the response criterion and treating this as a provisional questionnaire of hypervigilance, and (e calculating psychometric characteristics of this questionnaire.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

157

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • United States
    • North Carolina
      • Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599
        • UNC Center for Clinical and Translational Research

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

18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Subjects diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, age 18 or older, of any race or gender, will be enrolled. These subjects will be recruited from the Functional GI & Motility Disorder's Registry of Research Participants.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • clinical diagnosis of IBS
  • meets Rome III criteria for IBS
  • women or men aged 18 or older

Exclusion Criteria:

  • use of IBS-specific compounds, opiates, anticholinergics, or any drug likely to cause constipation as a side-effect
  • use of analgesics for 48 hours prior to the study
  • hypothyroid
  • history of bowel resection except appendectomy or cholecystectomy
  • psychotic disorder, major depression, substance abuse (other than tobacco)or other psychiatric condition likely to interfere with the conduct of the study
  • renal disease
  • patients with inflammatory or ischemic disease of the rectum
  • known to be unreliable.

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

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Collaborators

Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

February 1, 2008

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

June 1, 2010

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

June 1, 2010

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 19, 2010

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 19, 2010

First Posted (ESTIMATE)

July 21, 2010

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)

July 21, 2010

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 19, 2010

Last Verified

July 1, 2010

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • 07-005L

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