A digital health peri-operative cognitive-behavioral intervention to prevent transition from acute to chronic postsurgical pain in adolescents undergoing spinal fusion (SurgeryPal^TM): study protocol for a multisite randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spinal fusion surgery is associated with severe acute postsurgical pain and high rates of chronic postsurgical pain in adolescents. Psychological distress, sleep disturbance, and low pain self-efficacy predict higher acute pain and likelihood of developing chronic postsurgical pain. Interventions targeting baseline psychosocial risk factors have potential to interrupt a negative trajectory of continued pain and poor health-related quality of life (HRQL) over time but have not yet been developed and evaluated. This randomized controlled trial will test effectiveness of a digital peri-operative cognitive-behavioral intervention (SurgeryPal^TM) vs. education-control delivered to adolescents and their parents to improve acute and chronic pain and health outcomes in

SUBMITTER: Rabbitts JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8325315 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature