Chronic Pain Study (for participants worldwide)
Would you be interested in joining an internet-based study on chronic pain and its links with social and psychological events in your life?
Terry Borsook, a PhD student in Psychology at the University of Toronto is opening the study to those who have had chronic pain for at least six months. You need to be at least 21 years old, be fluent in English, and have a typical wake-sleep cycle (you’re generally awake during the day and asleep at night).
It’s only a three week study, and includes a time of orientation and then just a few minutes a day answering a few questions. It’s internet-based, so open to anyone worldwide. Having a world-wide audience here, I wanted to make sure you knew about the study, because I’m sure many of you are eligable.
It’s a unique study, and will not only help with ongoing research into chronic pain, it could help you. You’ll have summaries of your diaries, and, if you choose, you’ll be one of the first to receive a summary of the whole study.
Terry writes:
This is the first study of its kind and will, I hope, finally shed light on the types of experiences and psychological states that tend to be associated with the improvement and worsening of pain, function and the quality of daily life.
You can sign up now by going to the home page at the Mount Sinai Hospital: Wasser Pain Management Centre Pain Study
3 May 2017 @ 8:54 pm
I would like to be included in this study but cannot access a link. I was diagnosed with migraine headaches during my early 30’s and am now 77 and the frequency has increased to chronic for many years now. I have been active in mental health for most of my adult life and it is only in the last 10 + years that the chronic pain has forced me to slow my pace.
I had brain surgery(blood clots in several areas of the brain) when i was 18 at my first year at U of T.
Please let me know if I can be useful for this survey.
Thanks you, Barbara