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NCT05528536
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Exercise for Older Adults With Chronic Pain
NA trial testing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Chronic Pain in 163 participants. Completed in 19 January 2024.
31 December 2023
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | The University of Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 163 |
| Start date | 15 May 2022 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2023 |
| Estimated completion | 19 January 2024 |
| Sites | 1 location across Hong Kong |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Art — full drug profile →
- Exercise
- Treatment as usual
Conditions studied
- Chronic Pain — all drugs for Chronic Pain →
- Older Adults — all drugs for Older Adults →
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — all drugs for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy →
- Exercise — all drugs for Exercise →
Sponsor
The University of Hong Kong
Who can join
60 and older, any sex, with Chronic Pain or Older Adults. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
The goal of this trial is to learn if combining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and exercise works to reduce pain intensity, pain interference, and depressive symptoms in older adults with chronic pain and depressive symptoms. Researchers will compare ACT + exercise intervention (ACEx) to ACT + art intervention (Art+Ex) and usual care to see if ACT + exercise intervention works to reduce pain intensity, pain interference, and depressive symptoms. Participants will receive ACEx program, Art+Ex program, or usual care for 8 weeks and complete tests before and after the programs.
Publications & conference data
1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):
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Power of creative arts for older people with chronic pain and depressive symptoms: co-development of the Rewire with Arts protocol and findings from a pilot study.
Liu T, Kanagawa HS, Lee JKQ, Leung DKY, et al · · 2025 · cited 1× · PMID 40574612 · DOI 10.1192/bjo.2025.10062
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- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05528536 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Publications: Europe PMC API search by NCT ID, retrieved 10 June 2026
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by The University of Hong Kong
- Last refreshed: 14 July 2025
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