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NCT03440320: MY-Skills

Online Education and Gentle Exercise Intervention

Completed NA Results posted Last updated 13 June 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing MY-SKILLS - online in Chronic Pain in 32 participants. Completed in 12 May 2021.

Timeline
29 March 2018
Primary endpoint
12 May 2021
12 May 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsorColorado State University
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationrandomized
Designparallel
Maskingdouble
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment32
Start date29 March 2018
Primary completion12 May 2021
Estimated completion12 May 2021
Sites1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Colorado State University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Chronic Pain or Pain. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Results — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Per-arm endpoint measurements with 95% confidence intervals where reported. Source: trial results section.

Brief Pain Inventory Primary · Administered at baseline and again following the 8-week intervention

Change from baseline in pain on the Brief Pain Inventory scale following the 8-week intervention. The measure scores range from 0 to 10 with higher scores indicating more severe pain and greater interference. Reported scores indicate the change in scores from baseline to 8-weeks (after the intervention), with a potential range from -10 to 10. Negative scores would indicate and improvement (decrease) in pain severity and interference, while positive scores indicate an increase in pain severity and interference. Caregiver and care receiver completed the assessment on their own pain.

GroupValue95% CI
Online Pilot, MY-Skills (Intervention), Caregivers0.23± 1.34
Online Pilot, MY-Skills (Intervention), Care Receivers-0.29± 1.63
Online Pilot, MY-PLAN (Control), Caregivers-1.38± 1.83
Online Pilot, MY-PLAN (Control), Care Receivers-1.32± 1.87

Adverse events — posted to ClinicalTrials.gov

Time frame: 9 months, the span of time we conducted every intervention cohort. Reporting threshold: 0%. Adverse-event reports describe events observed during the trial — not all are caused by the drug.

MY-Skills Intervention - Online
Serious: 1/18 (6%)
Deaths: 0/18
MY-Plan Control - Online
Serious: 1/14 (7%)
Deaths: 0/14

Serious adverse events (2 terms)

ReactionSystemMY-Skills Intervention - O…MY-Plan Control - Online
Extreme leg painMusculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders
High blood pressureCardiac disorders

Most-reported serious reactions: Extreme leg pain, High blood pressure.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03440320 adverse events section.

Sponsor's own description

Aim 1: Develop and manualize the Education and Gentle Exercise intervention. Using focus groups, clinical reasoning, literature, and findings from previously tested interventions of yoga and self-management, the researchers will develop, refine, and standardize the Education and Gentle Exercise intervention for chronic pain. In parallel, the researchers will develop a control group that includes exercise and health and wellness education. The expected outcomes include Education and Gentle Exercise intervention workbooks for participants and training and teaching manuals for interventionists leading the Education and Gentle Exercise intervention group and control group. Aim 2: Assess feasibility and acceptability of an online intervention, the Education and Gentle Exercise and research procedures including planned assessments. In this small RCT, the researchers will examine feasibility and acceptability of the 8-week Education and Gentle Exercise procedures and intervention compared to an exercise and health and wellness education control group. Participants will include 30 caregiving dyads randomly assigned to the two groups (15 dyads for Education and Gentle Exercise, and 15 dyads for control group; N = 30 dyads/60 participants). The primary hypothesis is that Education and Gentle Exercise will be feasible and acceptable to caregiving dyads, as measured by benchmarks for recruitment, screening, attendance, and completion of assessments and intervention. Surveys will be administered and focus groups will be conducted to understand participant satisfaction and experiences with Education and Gentle Exercise. After each intervention session, interventionists, caregivers, and care recipients will rate their satisfaction with the session content and activities.

Publications & conference data

3 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

  1. Acceptability of Online Yoga Among Individuals With Chronic Conditions and Their Caregivers: Qualitative Study.
    Portz JD, Schmid A, Fruhauf C, Fox A, et al · · 2023 · cited 12× · PMID 37223971 · DOI 10.2196/39158
  2. A pilot study to establish feasibility and acceptability of a yoga and self-management education intervention to support caregivers and care receivers with persistent pain.
    Schmid AA, Fruhauf CA, Fox AL, Sharp JL, et al · · 2024 · cited 1× · PMID 39421567 · DOI 10.3389/fresc.2024.1397220
  3. Merging Yoga and self-management Skills (MY-Skills) to influence self-efficacy among individuals with persistent pain: A pilot study.
    Kinkel CL, Candray H, Fruhauf CA, Atler KE, et al · · 2022 · PMID 36343425 · DOI 10.1016/j.ctcp.2022.101678

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