Supporting Self-Management of Chronic Pain
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Supporting Self-Management in Chronic Pain: a Collaborative Approach Providing Relevant Tools to Healthcare Professionals and People with Pain
IRAS ID
223092
Contact name
Heather Wallace
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Pain Concern
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Does the Navigator Tool Intervention improve communication regarding self-management during consultations between healthcare professionals and people with chronic pain?
As there is usually no cure for chronic pain, healthcare professionals are increasingly turning to methods of treatment that emphasise management of symptoms rather than elimination of pain. However, as previous studies have shown, there are several barriers to self-management that both healthcare professionals and people with pain face in their consultations in primary care. The Navigator Tool Intervention has been designed to overcome the majority of these barriers by improving the quality of communication regarding self-management during consultations.
In line with the House of Care Model, where care relies on engaged and informed patients, healthcare professionals committed to partnership working, and organisational processes that support this, the Navigator Tool Intervention intervention prepares both the healthcare professionals and patients for their consultation. By providing a training session for the healthcare professionals in how supported self-management can be brought into the consultation room, and by providing the patients with a paper-based tool that allows them to organise their concerns and questions prior to the consultation, the intervention aims to steer the conversation toward the aspects that the patient needs to discuss in order to better manage their pain.
This study will launch the intervention and evaluate its effectiveness in improving self-management support. It will be launched over a 3 month period in 4 sites across Scotland; 24 patients will be using the tool with a trained healthcare professional and 24 will act as a control group, receiving standard care without the tool. Questionnaires and interviews will be analysed and compared between the two groups to evaluate the impact of the intervention on the patients and healthcare professionals’ satisfaction with the communication during consultations and the patient’s ability to self-manage their pain.
REC name
South East Scotland REC 02
REC reference
17/SS/0067
Date of REC Opinion
26 May 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion