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Register: Netherlands Trial Register
Last refreshed on: 28 April 2013
Main ID:  NTR3030
Date of registration: 18/08/2011
Primary sponsor: Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Public title: Validation of the PDQ & DN4.
Scientific title: PainDETECT-Questionnaire and DN4: A Dutch validation study in patients with low back pain, neck shoulder pain or with a neuropathic pain syndrome. -
Date of first enrolment: 23/2/2009
Target sample size: 438
Recruitment status: recruiting
URL:  http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=3030
Study type:  observational
Study design:  Randomised: No; Masking: None; Control: Not applicable; Group: Parallel; Type: Single arm  
Countries of recruitment
The Netherlands
Contacts
Name: H.  Timmerman
Address:  Radboud University Nijmegen Medical centre Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Care P.O.Box 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)6 53371015
Email: h.timmerman@anes.umcn.nl
Affiliation: 
Name: H.  Timmerman
Address:  Radboud University Nijmegen Medical centre Department of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Care P.O.Box 9101 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)6 53371015
Email: h.timmerman@anes.umcn.nl
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Men & Women;

2. At least 18 years old;

3. More than 3 months pain complaints of low back pain, neck shoulder pain radiating into respectively leg(s) or arm(s) or a neuropathic pain syndrome.

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients diagnosed with malignancy, compression fractures, ankylosing spondylitis or fibromyalgia;

2. Patients with painful syndromes of unknown origin or associated with diffuse pains, severe mental illness, chronic alcoholism or substance abuse;

3. Inability to fill in the questionnaire adequately;

4. Not capable to understand the Dutch language.


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Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Neuropathic pain , Validation, Questionnaires, Translation

Intervention(s)
Cross-sectional research design to study the psychometric quality of the PD-Q and the DN4 as compared to a gold standard (Diagnosis by two independant physiciqans), QST (20% of the study population) and the Grading System by Treede et al. (Neurology, 2008) with 2 weeks follow-up for test-retest reliability and 3 months follow-up for monitoring and prognosis.
Primary Outcome(s)
1. Outcome of the gold standard: The clinical examination serves as the goldstandard. Based on the grading system of Treede et al (2008), The gold standard is based on a standardized assessment performed by two independant working physicians;

2. Outcome of PDQ & DN4;

3. Outcome of Quantitative Sensory testing (QST) in 20% of the study population.
Secondary Outcome(s)
1. Medical comorbidity: Questionnaire with the most prevalent and relevant medical;

2. Mental health status: Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) (Spinhoven et al. 1997);

3. Functioning: Disability Rating Index (DRI) (Salen et al. 1994);

4. Health related quality of life: Short form-36 (SF-36);

5. Pain Attribution Scale (Kraaimaat 200?). 6. prevalence of neuropathic pain in this patient groups.
Secondary ID(s)
ABR 25343/Dossier NL25343.091.08
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Pfizer
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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