Physical activity maintenance persistent MSK pain
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Development of a Physical Activity Maintenance intervention for people with PERsistent musculoskeletal pain (PAMPER)
IRAS ID
340674
Contact name
Gregory Booth
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 7 months, 31 days
Research summary
Persistent musculoskeletal pain is when people have pain in their bones, joints, muscles, tendons or other soft tissues for three months or longer. People with the condition often have difficulty with physical activity, working and socialising. They often have other health problems.
Many people with persistent musculoskeletal pain attend pain management programmes to help them with rehabilitation and to self-manage their condition. This includes helping people to do more physical activity, which helps with pain, movement and mental health. Physical activity needs to be kept up lifelong to continue benefiting from it. However, many people with the condition have difficulty keeping physically active after the pain management programme has finished and there are many potential barriers they can face.
This research aims to develop an intervention that will help people with persistent musculoskeletal pain keep physically active after a pain management programme.
Firstly, people with persistent musculoskeletal pain, their physical activity partners and healthcare professionals working on pain management programmes will be interviewed about their experiences, barriers and facilitators to keeping physically active after a programme. Secondly, people with persistent musculoskeletal pain will be asked to complete questionnaires and wear a physical activity monitor straight after finishing a programme and six months later to identify factors associated with keeping up physical activity. In the six-month questionnaire they will also be asked to identify what think they may help them to keep up their physical activity. Lastly, the intervention will be designed with a group of people with persistent musculoskeletal pain, their physical activity partners and healthcare professionals working on pain management programmes in co-design workshops.
REC name
North West - Liverpool Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/NW/0174
Date of REC Opinion
23 May 2024
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion