Efficacy of Antidepressants in Chronic Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This 12 week placebo controlled clinical trial tests the individual and combined effects of an antidepressant medication and cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic back pain.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
• Collaborator: University of California, San Diego
• Treatments: Antidepressive Agents; Benztropine; Clomipramine; Desipramine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Chronic back pain (daily pain for > 6 months)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major medical conditions which might contraindicate antidepressant treatment