Observational Study of the Quality of Life for the Chronic Pain Patients Included in a Therapeutic Education Program Focused on Relaxation Techniques

Observational Study of the Quality of Life for the Chronic Pain Patients Included in a Therapeutic Education Program Focused on Relaxation Techniques

The benefit of learning psychocorporal techniques in Therapeutic Education on the quality of life of patients with chronic pain will be studied.

The purpose of this nursing research protocol is to highlight the improvement of the quality of life of chronic pain patients through psycho-physical techniques performed during group therapeutic education workshops.

The study will be performed at Centre for the Study and Treatment of Pain. The patients with chronic pain will participate to a group programm of therapeutic education.

The programm consists of 9 workshops about psycho-corporal techniques performed in group.

The patients will complete questionnaries before beginning the program, at the end of the programm, 6 months after the end of the program, and 12 months after the end of program.

The questionnaries will be SF36, HADS, CPAQ, and digital pain scale.

Inclusion Criteria:

• chronic pain since more the 3months
• Patients for whom a group "relaxation techniques" program is planned and accepted by the patient

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient with progressive cancer pain
• severe psychiatric pathology (example: psychosis, deep melancholy)
• Patient not compliant or refusing to participate in research
• Person who does not understand French, or illiterate
• Person physically unable to complete questionnaires (visually impaired or blind)
• Person protected by sections L1121-5 to L1121-8.1 of the French Public Health Code