It is a randomized controlled trial for application and assessment of two interventions: an educational Video-based Pain Program (VP) and Empowered Relief Program (ER). The primary purpose of our study is to investigate the effect of ER and VP on the Pain Catastrophizing Score in people with CNCP who are waiting for Multidisciplinary pain treatment. The secondary aim is to analyse the effects on other patient reported outcomes such as pain intensity, pain interference in daily activities, pain catastrophizing, pain acceptance, quality of life, mood, perceived change on over-all pain status, as well as consumption of pain medicine and usage of healthcare services. The effects of the two interventions will be compared with each other and a control group.
The development of alternative methods to address simple clinical needs and easy interventions of self-application are desired in the pre-habilitation period (waiting list). To our knowledge that are very few studies regarding interventions for patients in waiting list for specialized treatment of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) and they do not include cognitive-behavioural programs. This project is based on the hypothesis that educational and cognitive-behavioural interventions help to reduce deleterious effects of pain on some areas of patient's life. Therefore, the goal is to test two different interventions to help patients to self-manage their pain and avoid worsening in the pre-clinical period.