Prevention of Postsurgical Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents (PREVENDOL)

Chronic postsurgical pain is a health problem with a great societal impact: approximately 20% of all children and adolescents undergoing surgery will develop chronic pain. Importantly, the risk and protective factors that are known (e.g., anxiety, catastrophizing, pain beliefs and pain coping) are modifiable, thus there is a huge potential for the development of both preventive and protective programs to avoid the transition from acute to chronic pain or reduce the impact in the lives of patients when it has already developed.

The main objective of this project is to develop and test a program to prevent the development of chronic postsurgical pain in children and adolescents undergoing surgery in order to improve their quality of life (and that of their families). That program will be implemented in a mobile application. This proposal will be implemented in 3 phases: 1. Development of the preventive program of chronic postsurgical pain and its implementation in a mobile application 2. Usability test of the mobile application 3. Clinical trial to test the effectiveness of the preventive program