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Optimization of the Care Pathway for Patients With Chronic Pain: Assessing the Value of Integrating Sleep Specialists

Recruiting
18 years of age
Both
Phase N/A

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Overview

DOLOREPIT is an interventional, RIPH 2, multicenter, randomized, controlled, open-label study comparing two care pathways for the management of patients with chronic pain.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

  • First consultation at the pain management center
  • Patient with chronic pain as defined by the "Haute Autorité de Santé". The pain must have several of the following characteristics:
    • Persistence or recurrence
    • Duration beyond what is usual for the presumed initial cause, especially if the pain has been evolving for more than 3 months;
    • Inadequate response to treatment;
    • Important and progressive deterioration of the patient's functional and interpersonal abilities in activities of daily living at home, school, or work due to the pain.
  • Patients with chronic primary pain (according to the typology defined by the

    International Classification of Diseases-11) and classified into one of the 4 following categories:

    • Chronic generalized pain
    • Complex regional pain syndrome
    • Chronic primary headache or orofacial pain
    • Chronic primary musculoskeletal pain
  • Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) must be completed by the patient and the score

    must be available (for randomization purposes)

  • Have access to an internet connection as a self-administered questionnaire is to complete online, and at least have access to the online platform for CBT treatment if insomnia is detected
  • Affiliation to a French social security system
  • Free informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients undergoing cancer treatment or who have completed treatment within the last 2 years
  • Patient with a chronic inflammatory disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, Horton's disease, Wegener's disease, myositis, Still's disease, lupus erythematosus, etc.)
  • Immunocompromised patient
  • Patient with severe psychiatric pathology that does not allow study follow-up (at the discretion of the investigator)
  • Patient already treated for a sleep disorder by a sleep specialist (the only prescription of hypnotics is not considered as a criterion of non-inclusion)
  • Patient follow-up difficult (for geographic motives or other reasons)
  • Patient under judicial protection of incapable adults or guardianship
  • Refusal to participate in the research

Study details

Chronic Pain

NCT06052384

Centre Hospitalier Emile Roux

26 January 2024

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