Expectations, effect and experiences of an easily accessible self-management intervention for people with chronic pain: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial with embedded qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People struggling with chronic pain may benefit from different types of non-pharmacological interventions such as self-management courses. Self-management courses aim to increase participants' skills and knowledge in managing chronic conditions. Community health-care services in Norway have increasingly established Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) to offer easily accessible interventions to people in need of support to better handle a life with chronic illness. The aim of this trial is to investigate the expectations, effect and experience of an easily accessible, group-based self-management course delivered at a HLC for people with chronic pain.

Methods/design

This is an open pragmatic two-armed randomised controlled trial with an embedded qualitative study. The inter

SUBMITTER: Nost TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4950079 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature