Short-term effect of a chronic pain self-management intervention delivered by an easily accessible primary healthcare service: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the effects on persons with chronic pain after 3 months of a group-based chronic pain self-management course compared with a drop-in, low-impact outdoor physical group activity on patient activation and a range of secondary outcomes.

Design

An open, pragmatic, parallel group randomised controlled trial. Analyses were performed using a two-level linear mixed model.

Setting

An easily accessible healthcare service provided by Norwegian public primary healthcare.

Participants

A total of 121 participants with self-reported chronic pain for 3 months or more were randomised with 60 participants placed in the intervention group and 61 placed in the control group (mean age 53 years, 88% women, 63% pain for 10 years or more).

Interventions

SUBMITTER: Nost TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303596 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature