Patients with chronic pain prefer maintenance of pain treatment despite COVID-19 pandemic restrictions
Organizational Data
- DRKS-ID:
- DRKS00022110
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Date of registration in DRKS:
- 2020-12-21
- Last update in DRKS:
- 2021-12-27
- Registration type:
- Retrospective
Acronym/abbreviation of the study
No Entry
URL of the study
Brief summary in lay language
In this prospective study, patients suffering from chronic pain treated at a large German interdisciplinary pain center were studied over a period of 2 months at the beginning of the pandemic. Data from patient charts and questionnaires were evaluated. Patients were asked about postponements or cancellations of pain therapy, the possible effect on pain levels, depression, anxiety and stress and the impact of intensified hygiene measures. Results were compared to those from standardized and validated questionnaires from the same patients (German version of the depression, anxiety and stress scale = DASS) at time of the first contact in the pain clinic.
Brief summary in scientific language
The aim of this prospective study is to clarify whether chronic pain patients are impaired in treatment by the hygiene measures caused by the pandemic.
Health condition or problem studied
- ICD10:
- F45.41
- Healthy volunteers:
- No Entry
Interventions, Observational Groups
- Arm 1:
- Patients are interviewed using a questionnaire and telephone interview.
Endpoints
- Primary outcome:
- Survey by means of a questionnaire and telephone interview
- Secondary outcome:
- There is none
Study Design
- Purpose:
- Supportive care
- Retrospective/prospective:
- No Entry
- Study type:
- Non-interventional
- Longitudinal/cross-sectional:
- No Entry
- Study type non-interventional:
- No Entry
Recruitment
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Reason if recruiting stopped or withdrawn:
- No Entry
Recruitment Locations
- Recruitment countries:
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- Germany
- Number of study centers:
- Monocenter study
- Recruitment location(s):
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- University medical center Freiburg im Breisgau
Recruitment period and number of participants
- Planned study start date:
- 2020-05-15
- Actual study start date:
- 2020-06-15
- Planned study completion date:
- No Entry
- Actual Study Completion Date:
- 2020-10-30
- Target Sample Size:
- 400
- Final Sample Size:
- 149
Inclusion Criteria
- Sex:
- All
- Minimum Age:
- 18 Years
- Maximum Age:
- 99 Years
- Additional Inclusion Criteria:
- patients with chronic pain and treatment in the pain clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic
Exclusion Criteria
younger than 18 years, inadequate German language skills
Addresses
Primary Sponsor
- Address:
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgBreisacherstrasse 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- No Entry
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
- Investigator Sponsored/Initiated Trial (IST/IIT):
- Yes
Contact for Scientific Queries
- Address:
- Interdisziplinäres SchmerzzentrumUniversitätsklinikum Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgDr. med., MSc. Barbara KleinmannBreisacherstrasse 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0761 270 50200
- Fax:
- 0761 270 50130
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- http:// http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/schmerzzentrum.html
Contact for Public Queries
- Address:
- Interdisziplinäres SchmerzzentrumUniversitätsklinikum FreiburgMedizinische FakultätDr. Barbara KleinmannBreisacherstrasse 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0761 270 50020
- Fax:
- 0761 270 50130
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/schmerzzentrum.html
Principal Investigator
- Address:
- Interdisziplinäres SchmerzzentrumUniversitätsklinikum Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgDr. med., MSc. Barbara KleinmannBreisacherstrasse 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- 0761 270 50200
- Fax:
- 0761 270 50130
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- http:// http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/schmerzzentrum.html
Sources of Monetary or Material Support
Institutional budget, no external funding (budget of sponsor/PI)
- Address:
- Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Medizinische Fakultät, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgBreisacherstrasse 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- No Entry
- Fax:
- No Entry
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
Ethics Committee
Address Ethics Committee
- Address:
- Ethik-Kommission der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgEngelberger Str. 2179106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-761-27072600
- Fax:
- +49-761-27072630
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Date of ethics committee application:
- 2020-05-26
- Ethics committee number:
- 353/20
- Vote of the Ethics Committee:
- Approved
- Date of the vote:
- 2020-06-02
Further identification numbers
- Other primary registry ID:
- No Entry
- EudraCT Number:
- No Entry
- Other secondary IDs:
- No Entry
IPD - Individual Participant Data
- Do you plan to make participant-related data (IPD) available to other researchers in an anonymized form?:
- Yes
- IPD Sharing Plan:
- The anonymised study data will be published as supplementary data.
Study protocol and other study documents
- Study protocols:
- No Entry
- Study abstract:
- No Entry
- Other study documents:
- No Entry
- Background literature:
- No Entry
- Related DRKS studies:
- No Entry
Publication of study results
- Planned publication:
- No Entry
- Publikationen/Studienergebnisse:
- Publikation
- Date of first publication of study results:
- No Entry
- DRKS entry published for the first time with results:
- No Entry
Basic reporting
- Basic Reporting / Results tables:
- No Entry
- Brief summary of results:
- No Entry