Recruiting

Pain Portal

Sponsor:

The Hospital for Sick Children

Code:

NCT06076889

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 18

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Power over Pain Portal

Study Details

Brief summary:

The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting one of the greatest threats to youth mental health seen in generations. Pain is one of the most common symptoms of extreme stress in youth. In 2020, the investigators created an online "stepped-care" program called the Power over Pain Portal. Stepped care is a promising way to improve access to CP care. Stepped care tailors care based on a person's symptom severity. Like a ladder, a person must start with one type of care then "step up" or "step down" to more or less intense care depending on need. The investigators also summarized all online pain management programs for youth to find the best resources to embed into the Portal. The investigators will pilot-test the Portal with youth to ensure it can be implemented effectively and will be clinically beneficial. The investigators will recruit 100 youth with CP to use the Portal for 2 months and see how they interact with the features and if it helps to improve their pain and mental health. The investigators will include a mixture of youth who represent different ages, sexes, genders, sexual orientations, races, dwellings, and school/employment status.

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Study ID

NCT06076889

Start date

Oct 31, 2022

Status verified date

Jun, 2025

Completion date

Sep 30, 2025

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Sep 30, 2025

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 18

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Experience chronic pain
  • Speak and read English
  • Access to Internet / Smartphone (or will be loaned study phone with data plan)
  • Intend to use the portal for 2 months

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Youth self-reports:
  • Receiving tertiary care or are on waitlists for tertiary care paediatric chronic pain programs
  • Have moderate to severe cognitive impairment that may impact their ability to understand and use the Power over Pain Portal or complete self-reported outcomes
  • Have untreated major psychiatric illness (e.g., anorexia, psychosis) and/or active suicidality at the time of screening

Study Design

Enrollment

100 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

Power over Pain Portal

Youth from different ages, sexes, gender, sexual orientations, races, dwelling and school/employment status will receive access to the portal for 2 months. The portal consists of self-assessment tools (bi-weekly check-ins to provide users with feedback on their mood, anxiety, pain, and sleep and guide decision making on choice of interventions), evidence-based virtual educational (pain neuroscience) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) pain interventions that are delivered in a stepped care manner based on participant needs/preference.

Primary outcome measure

  • Acceptability [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
  • Adoption (i.e.,rate of uptake of the Power over Pain Portal) [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
  • Appropriateness (i.e., perceived fit and compatibility of the Power over Pain Portal to the needs of users) [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
  • Portal Feasibility as assessed by the extent to which the Power over Pain Portal can be used as planned [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
  • Portal Feasibility as assessed by the extent to which the Power over Pain Portal can be used as planned [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
  • Fidelity [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Jennifer N Stinson, RN, PhD

416-813-7654jennifer.stinson@sickkids.ca

Chitra Lalloo, PhD

416-813-7654chitra.lalloo@sickkids.ca

Locations

The Hospital for Sick Children

Recruiting

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 1X8

Contacts

Rachel Kelly, BA

416-813-7654rachelr.kelly@sickkids.ca

Chitra Lalloo, BHSc, PhD

416-813-7654chitra.lalloo@sickkids.ca

Principal Investigator:

Jennifer Stinson, RN, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

The Hospital for Sick Children

Last update posted

Jul 2, 2025

Last verified

Jun, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by The Hospital for Sick Children on 2025-07-02.