U.S., Sept. 16 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07821047) titled 'Sleep and Pain in Osteoarthritis' on Aug. 27.
Brief Summary: People with osteoarthritis and painful joints often report poor sleep, but poor sleep can also increase pain. There have been very few studies of sleep in osteoarthritis using physical measuring devices, but in other painful conditions many people report worse sleep in questionnaires than actual sleep measured using wristwatch devices called actigraphs. This is called sleep misperception. Sleep misperception may affect the amount of pain that people report. Sleep misperception could be influenced by negative factors such as pain catastrophising (a tendency to ruminate on ...