De-STRESS pain (stage 2)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Exploring how peoples’ experiences of pain relate to emotions and experiences of stress: A questionnaire study.
IRAS ID
303304
Contact name
Tamar Pincus
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Royal Holloway, University of London
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
People with chronic musculoskeletal pain often feel low, exhausted, irritable and have trouble to do the things they usually do. This may be identified by GPs as depression, and therefore patients are prescribed anti-depressants. However, the distress related to chronic musculoskeletal pain is different from clinical depression - many patients don’t want antidepressants, and don't improve after being prescribed them. This project aims to find a set of questions to help to identify patients with pain related distress as opposed to clinical depression.
This will be done through cross-sectional questionnaire methods. Patients with SNOMED codes for either chronic musculoskeletal pain, depression or both will be recruited. We will analyse responses to the questionnaire to identify the key questions that separate patients into different groups. We anticipate identifying four groups of patients: a) people with chronic pain and clinical depression; b) people with chronic pain and pain-related distress, but not clinical depression; c) people with clinical depression but not chronic pain; and d) people with chronic pain but neither pain-related distress nor clinical depression.
REC name
South Central - Hampshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/SC/0379
Date of REC Opinion
5 Jan 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion