Online Intervention for Paediatric Chronic Pain Management (0.1)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Development of an Online, Interdisciplinary Intervention for Paediatric Chronic Pain Management.
IRAS ID
253044
Contact name
Christina Liossi
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Southampton
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 8 months, 1 days
Research summary
Chronic Pain is broadly defined as pain lasting three months or longer. This could range from bone and joint pain, to headaches. Research estimates that chronic pain is very common in children, for example, bone and joint pain may be experienced by anywhere between 4% and 40% of children. This research seeks to develop an internet-based programme to help teenagers manage pain at home using a variety of techniques that mirror clinical practice. This includes content such as physiotherapy, and relaxation techniques.
The study will use interviews (one semi-structured interview and one 'think-aloud' interview per participant) to explore the question: What content and features do young people with chronic pain, and their parents want to see in an online pain management intervention?
The study aims to recruit a group of teenagers (12 to 18 years) from Great Ormond Street Hospital and Royal Marsden Hospital, as well as a group of parents. After the first round of interviews, participants have the option to be contacted about the second round.
Recruitment for the first round of interviews will continue up until the point where no additional insights are found by adding new data to the analysis ('point of saturation'). We anticipate 30 teenagers and 30 parents will be sufficient. We hope to recruit young people with a mixture of ages and sexes, as well as a mixture of different pain diagnoses, and parents with varying backgrounds and sexes where possible.
The insights gathered from this study will help develop a new programme for managing chronic pain in teenagers, which we aim to make available through the NHS. The intervention hopes to contribute to successful chronic pain management at home, and may be used as an adjunct to clinical services, such as the Pain Control Service at Great Ormond Street.REC name
South Central - Hampshire B Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/SC/0220
Date of REC Opinion
1 Jul 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion