Study type

Study topic

Disease /health condition
Other

Study topic, other

Disease/Epidemiology study

Study type

Non-interventional study

Scope of the study

Disease epidemiology
Drug utilisation

Data collection methods

Primary data collection
Non-interventional study

Non-interventional study design

Cross-sectional
Study drug and medical condition

Medical condition to be studied

Pain management
Population studied

Short description of the study population

Patients showing signs and symptoms of localised neuropathic pain (LNP) in the primary care setting in France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Age groups

Adults (18 to < 46 years)
Adults (46 to < 65 years)
Adults (65 to < 75 years)
Adults (75 to < 85 years)
Adults (85 years and over)

Estimated number of subjects

1000
Study design details

Main study objective

To describe treatment characteristics and patterns of treatment of LNP patients identified among chronic pain patients in primary care in 5 EU countries.

Outcomes

The primary endpoints for the study will be the important clinical and treatment characteristics at the time of the visit, including but not limited to: clinical characteristics, aetiology of LNP, co-morbidities and therapy for chronic pain in the 6 moths preceding the screening, current analgesia for chronic pain, - EQ-5D score (Patient’s self-reported health status) - CPSI scores (Patient’s self-reported quality of sleep) - Prevalence of LNP

Data analysis plan

Analyses will be mainly descriptive in nature. Categorical data will be summarized by counts and percentages. Continuous data will be summarized using number, mean, standard deviation (SD), median, quartiles, minimum and maximum and in the case of non-normally distributed data, median, range and interquartile range. All statistical tests used for comparisons to assess differences or associations will be 2-sided and conducted at the 0.05 alpha level. P-values will be presented to three decimal places.