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Clinical and Scientific Assessment of Pain and Painful Disorders

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) · NCT02707029

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Key facts

Compensation
Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
Who can join
Ages 12–120 · All sexes
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
Study type
Observational
Target enrollment
10000
US sites recruiting
1
Study start
July 22, 2016
Record last updated
October 13, 2026

Status re-checked against ClinicalTrials.gov within the last 12 hours.

What the study is about

Background

Researchers want to better understand pain by studying people with and without different kinds of pain. To do this, researchers will expose people to pleasant and unpleasant sensations. They will ask them questions about their pain. Researchers also want to see if these people are eligible for other research studies at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

Objectives

To study the experience of pain. Also to find people eligible to join other NIH studies.

Eligibility

People 12 years and older with and without pain disorders.

Design

Participants will be screened by phone.

Participants will have one required visit lasting about 2 hours. This may include:

  • Medical history
  • Physical exam
  • Questionnaires about themselves and their pain experience
  • Blood and urine tests
  • MRI: They will lie on a table that slides into a cylinder. They will feel different sensations while completing tasks on a computer. This lasts 15 minutes to 2 hours.
  • Quantitative sensory testing: They will be exposed to different pictures, sounds, tastes, and smells. They will also be exposed to pleasant and unpleasant sensations. These could include:
  • Burning, itching, or cold sensations
  • Pinpricks
  • Pressure and pinches
  • Electrocardiogram: Stickers on the chest record heart activity.
  • Straps placed around the chest to measure breathing.
  • Small sensors on the fingers or palms to measure pulse and sweating.

Participants may have up to 12 other outpatient study visits.

Participants may be recorded at the visits.

Conditions: Normal Physiology; Pain

Eligibility criteria

Copied from the official record. The study team makes the final decision at screening.

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  • INCLUSION CRITERIA:
  • Are >= 12 years of age

EXCLUSION CRITERIA

  • Have difficulties with communication that make subjective pain assessment impossible or unreliable.
  • Have acute medical or psychiatric health issues that create additional and substantial adverse risks related to study procedures. Medical examples are the acute complications of medical disease, such as asymptomatic hypertensive urgency, diabetic ketoacidosis, symptomatic hyperthyroidism, and unstable angina. Psychiatric examples are the acute complications of psychiatric disease, such as acute mania, paranoid delusions, or having acute panic attacks.
  • Are participating in other ongoing research protocols such that phenotypic measurements would interfere with the conduct of an ongoing protocols or the receipt of a research treatment would influence the phenotypic measurements.
  • Employees or staff that work at NCCIH.
  • Pregnant women

Recruiting US locations

  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

    Bethesda, MD 20892

    Site contact: For more information at the NIH Clinical Center contact Office of Patient Recruitment (OPR) · 800-411-1222 · ccopr@nih.gov

Study contacts (from the official record)

  • Keyonna L Berry · (301) 594-1782 · keyonna.berry@nih.gov
  • Miroslav Backonja, M.D. · (301) 402-5679 · misha.backonja@nih.gov
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