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Prevention of Postsurgical Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents (PREVENDOL)
Sponsor: University Rovira i Virgili
Summary
Chronic postsurgical pain is a health problem with a great societal impact: approximately 20% of all children and adolescents undergoing surgery will develop chronic pain. Importantly, the risk and protective factors that are known (e.g., anxiety, catastrophizing, pain beliefs and pain coping) are modifiable, thus there is a huge potential for the development of both preventive and protective programs to avoid the transition from acute to chronic pain or reduce the impact in the lives of patients when it has already developed.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
8 Years - 18 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
125
Start Date
2025-02-01
Completion Date
2026-12-31
Last Updated
2024-10-16
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
The mobile application will include the following modules: 1. Psychoeducation: information about what to expect from each phase of the surgical process (i.e., pre-operative, the surgery itself and the post-operative). 2. Activation control techniques: to teach different activation control techniques such as relaxation, breathing techniques and mindfulness training. 3. Cognitive restructuring and problem solving: to teach how to change maladaptive pain-related beliefs for more adaptive ones and how to better cope with pain. 4. Exercises and tasks: to encourage the use of the learning strategies we will offer a number of exercises and tasks 5. Parent's module: to teach parents about the surgical process and how they can help their children during the process
Locations (3)
Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron
Barcelona, Spain
Hospital Universitario 12 de octubre
Madrid, Spain
Hospital Joan XXIII
Tarragona, Spain