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The funding of the study is challenged. We might resume enrollment if new funds are found or will terminate the study.
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| Lucine | INDUSTRY |
| Centre for Research of CHUS (CRCHUS) | UNKNOWN |
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Chronic pain (CP) is disabling for people triggering important costs for society. A deficit of diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC) is one of the CP mechanisms. DNICs are evaluated in research setting using a CPM protocol (conditioned pain modulation). There is a lack of reference values on the effectiveness of DNICs. Wider research on DNIC will help to understand CP and to develop a clinical screening test evaluating DNICs. This study aims more specifically to determine whether it is possible to develop a facial recognition system to automate pain measurement and the effectiveness of pain control mechanisms.
This study aims:
The target population will be healthy volunteers and volunteers with chronic pain, male and female, stratified by age.
The reference values (healthy volunteers) will be established via a non-parametric method for a standard conditioned pain modulation (CPM) protocol in which two "stimuli tests" of the same intensity and nature (heat) will be applied before and after the application of another "conditioning stimulus" (cold water bath). The perceived pain difference between the 1st and 2nd stimuli tests will reflect the intensity of the DNICs. Participants' facial expressions will be captured simultaneously by three cameras during the CPM testing.
These results will be compared to those from volunteers suffering with chronic pain. The clinical decision rule will result from clinical and paraclinical elements correlating with the amplitude of the efficacy of CPM (serum noradrenaline, intensity of pain, heart rate and blood pressure measurements, psychometric questionnaires assessing anxiety, depressive feelings and pain catastrophizing). Logistic regression analysis will determine the best predictors of a CPM deficit.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Chronic pain | Patients with chronic pain (n=100) |
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| Healthy participants | Healthy participants (n=144) |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Conditioned pain modulation test | Other | Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) protocol consist of evaluating pain during a heat test, before and after one conditioning stimulus (cold water bath); 3 cameras will be capturing participants' facial expressions during the tests. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) profiles | Sensitivity and specificity of the classification algorithm according to different profiles (normal vs altered) of conditioned pain modulation, as defined by the change of pain perception before and after the cold water bath measured by computerized visual analog scale (CoVAS) ranging from 0 [no pain] to 100 [most intense pain that could be tolerated] in healthy and in chronic pain volunteers together. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment (comparison between 1st and 2nd test, after the conditioning stimuli) |
| Temporal summation profiles | Sensitivity and specificity of the classification algorithm according to different profiles (normal vs altered) of temporal summation, as defined by the change of pain perception during the first stimuli test measured by computerized visual analog scale (CoVAS) ranging from 0 [no pain] to 100 [most intense pain that could be tolerated] in healthy and in chronic pain volunteers together. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment (during the first stimuli test) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) profiles of healthy volunteers | Conditioned pain modulation, as defined by the change of pain perception before and after the cold water bath measured by computerized visual analog scale (CoVAS) ranging from 0 [no pain] to 100 [most intense pain that could be tolerated] only in healthy volunteers. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment (comparison between 1st and 2nd test, after the conditioning stimuli |
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Healthy participants
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Participants with chronic pain
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Male and female volunteers, with and without chronic pain.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Guillaume Léonard, PhD | Université de Sherbrooke | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Université de Sherbrooke | Sherbrooke | Quebec | J1H 5N4 | Canada |
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| ID | Term |
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| D059350 | Chronic Pain |
| ID | Term |
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| D010146 | Pain |
| D009461 | Neurologic Manifestations |
| D012816 | Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
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| Temporal summation profiles of healthy volunteers | Temporal summation, as defined by the change of pain perception during the first stimuli test measured by computerized visual analog scale (CoVAS) ranging from 0 [no pain] to 100 [most intense pain that could be tolerated] only in healthy volunteers. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment (during the first stimuli test) |
| Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) profiles of volunteers with chronic pain | Conditioned pain modulation, as defined by the change of pain perception before and after the cold water bath measured by computerized visual analog scale (CoVAS) ranging from 0 [no pain] to 100 [most intense pain that could be tolerated] only in volunteers with chronic pain. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment (comparison between 1st and 2nd test, after the conditioning stimuli) |
| Temporal summation profiles of volunteers with chronic pain | Temporal summation, as defined by the change of pain perception during the first stimuli test measured by computerized visual analog scale (CoVAS) ranging from 0 [no pain] to 100 [most intense pain that could be tolerated] only in volunteers with chronic pain. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment (during the first stimuli test) |
| Demographic factors | Association of demographic factors (age, gender) with different response profiles of CPM and temporal summation established by the algorithm. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment |
| Psychologic factors | Association of psychologic factors (anxiety measured with HADS questionnaire) with different response profiles of CPM and temporal summation established by the algorithm. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment |
| Physiologic factors | Association of physiologic factors (continuous blood pressure, heart rate, electrodermal activity) with different response profiles of CPM and temporal summation established by the algorithm. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment |
| Facial expressions and postures | Association of facial expressions and postures with different response profiles of CPM and temporal summation established by the algorithm. | Once, at baseline, at recruitment |