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

    anniley.seymour@thewaltoncentre.nhs.uk

  • 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