Impact of chronic pain on the lives of adolescents
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Computerised assessment of adolescent chronic pain: A feasibility study of the BAPQ-C
IRAS ID
218854
Contact name
Abbie Jordan
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Bath
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 1 months, 30 days
Research summary
An important element of treatment of adolescent chronic pain concerns assessment. A comprehensive review of adolescent measures in the context of chronic pain identified the need for psychometrically robust multidimensional assessment tools to measure adolescent and parental functioning (Eccleston et al., 2006). The Bath Adolescent Pain Questionnaire (BAPQ; Eccleston et al., 2005) was developed in response to these particular needs. The BAPQ is a multidimensional adolescent self-report measure which assesses functioning in a range of domains including physical, psychological, family, social and developmental functioning. As a measure, the BAPQ has been a successful and clinically useful measure, with adoption in a wide range of UK and international settings (Eccleston & Clinch, 2007; Ameringer, 2009; Fales et al., 2014).
Whilst the BAPQ has shown great promise for use in a research capacity, its use in clinical settings and acceptability to adolescents is limited whilst administered as a paper based measure. Thus, despite the popularity of the BAPQ, both adolescents and clinicians have called for a computerised version of the measure. In direct response to this, a computerised version of the BAPQ has been developed (known as the BAPQ-C). The proposed study will examine the feasibility of the BAPQ-C; its acceptability by adolescents and suitability to clinicians as a measure to inform assessment of adolescent chronic pain.
14 adolescent participants aged between 11-18 years will be recruited from the outpatient pain management clinic at the RNHRD, and will be present on the residential treatment programme with a minimum pain duration of three months. All participants will be accompanied on the programme by a parent or carer. The aim is to ask adolescents to complete the BAPQ-C in week 2 of the pain programme, followed by the BAPQ Usability Questionnaire.REC name
East of England - Cambridge Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/EE/0087
Date of REC Opinion
8 Mar 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion