Evaluation of the Patient's Autonomy Vis-à-vis the Therapeutic Project Proposed in a Chronic Pain Structure

Chronic Pain Clinical Trial

— DoulEthic  

Official title:

Evaluation of the Patient's Autonomy Vis-à-vis the Therapeutic Project Proposed in a Chronic Pain Structure

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05889403
• Other study ID #: DoulEthic
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: February 15, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: May 2023
• Source: Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Patient autonomy is recognized throughout the world, by caregivers, as a value. The idea of autonomy has been the keystone of the changes accomplished in the contemporary history of health law. It is about respect for everyone to have their own health and to choose the options that correspond to their wishes, their values or their life projects. The recently revised definition of pain specifies that it is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage". In this, pain is always a personal experience that is influenced to varying degrees by biological, psychological and social factors. The High Authority of Health considers pain as chronic is considered when it is persistent or recurrent beyond what is usual for its presumed initial cause (most often beyond 3 months), that it responds harm to treatment and that they induce a significant and progressive deterioration of functional and relational capacities. Chronic pain confines patients on a psychosocial level. It is no longer just a symptom, it is even a disease in its own right since 2019 with the new classification of diseases proposed by the World Health Organization.In France, chronic pain concerns 31.7% of French people regardless of its intensity, and 19.9% of French people for moderate to severe pain, which represents 13 million people in total. As with any chronic disease, the patient suffering from persistent pain must develop the ability to adapt to cope with the new situation with which he is confronted. He must be able to acquire knowledge and new know-how related to his pathology and thus finally find a new homeostasis, a new state of health having integrated "the pathological state". In France, chronic pain concerns 31.7% of French people regardless of its intensity, and 19.9% of French people for moderate to severe pain, which represents 13 million people in total. As with any chronic disease, the patient suffering from persistent pain must develop the ability to adapt to cope with the new situation with which he is confronted. He must be able to acquire knowledge and new know-how related to his pathology and thus finally find a new homeostasis, a new state of health having integrated "the pathological state".In France, chronic pain concerns 31.7% of French people regardless of its intensity, and 19.9% of French people for moderate to severe pain, which represents 13 million people in total. As with any chronic disease, the patient suffering from persistent pain must develop the ability to adapt to cope with the new situation with which he is confronted. He must be able to acquire knowledge and new know-how related to his pathology and thus finally find a new homeostasis, a new state of health having integrated "the pathological state". In current practice, this skill is assessed in case of doubt (generally when there is uncertainty about the patient's understanding of the issues and his involvement in the therapeutic project) intuitively, by following a Socratic questioning or from grids like the MacCAT-T. In the pain center, investigators use the MacCAT-T but investigators have not yet systematically measured the benefit and the cost of using this questionnaire in everyday practice. In particular, investigators want to know if the skill is not overestimated by the doctor in charge of the patient.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: May 15, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient whose age = 18 years
• Patient coming in 1st chronic pain consultation
• French-speaking patient

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient with a significant visual or auditory deficit
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Patient deprived of liberty
• Patient under legal protection
• Patient objects to the use of their data for this research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Pain

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (7)

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Raja SN, Carr DB, Cohen M, Finnerup NB, Flor H, Gibson S, Keefe FJ, Mogil JS, Ringkamp M, Sluka KA, Song XJ, Stevens B, Sullivan MD, Tutelman PR, Ushida T, Vader K. The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises. Pain. 2020 Sep 1;161(9):1976-1982. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001939. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Measurement of patient autonomy	This outcome corresponds to the analysis of the distribution (means, standard deviations, medians, etc.) of MacCAT-T subscores (understanding, evaluation, appreciation and reasoning) of patients just after the pain consultation, where the personalized therapeutic plan was offered to them.; analysis of the distribution (means, standard deviations, medians, etc.) of MacCAT-T subscores (understanding, evaluation, appreciation and reasoning) of patients just after the pain consultation, where the personalized therapeutic plan was offered to them	Day 1
Secondary	Good capacity for evaluation by the investigators of the autonomy of their patient	This outcome corresponds to the the percentage of concordance between the assessment (on a 3-point scale: not deficient, moderately deficient, very deficient) of the patient's degree of autonomy by the pain physician and the score obtained on the MacCAT-T.	Day 1