Focus Group: Young Adults with Chronic Pain
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Focus Group: An exploration in to key quality of life themes in young adults with chronic pain
IRAS ID
157379
Contact name
Annily Seymour-Hyde
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
Research summary
The study aims to identify the specific quality of life themes (psychosocial) in a young adult population (18-30 years) experiencing chronic pain. The study will comprise of 3 focus groups of 8-10 young adults with chronic pain who have been assessed at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust Pain Clinic. The focus group will take a semi-structured format and will be facilitated by two specialist clinical psychologists. The focus group will last 2 hours and the content will be audio recorded and the facilitators will listen to the recording and pull out key quality of life themes. These key themes will help us to inform the content of our pain management programmes
REC name
London - Fulham Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/LO/1116
Date of REC Opinion
18 Jun 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion