Chronic Pain Diagnosis and Treatment in Torture Survivors

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

100

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 14, 2021

Primary Completion Date

October 31, 2025

Study Completion Date

October 31, 2025

Conditions
PainPain, Chronic
Interventions
OTHER

Pain Evaluation and BPISF

Current diagnostic approaches guide evaluators to use the United Nations Istanbul Protocol (UNIP) for the assessment of torture survivors. The proposed investigation offers a novel diagnostic paradigm by which participants are evaluated by the UNIP and a validated pain screen (Brief Pain Inventory Short Form).

OTHER

Surveys, a fingerstick blood sample, EMAs, and a digital wearable device

The following surveys: BPI-SF, RHS-15, RTHC, SOIS-SF, RPMS, WHOAQ, QVSFS, a fingerstick blood sample, EMAs, and a digital wearable device

Trial Locations (4)

10016

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Bellevue/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, New York

10029

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Mount Sinai Human Rights Program, New York

10032

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Columbia University Human Rights Initiative and Asylum Clinic, New York

10065

RECRUITING

Weill Cornell Medicine, New York

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

collaborator

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

NIH

lead

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

OTHER