The Effect of Exposure to Aversive Non-verbal Vocalizations on Pain Tolerance

Launched by CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SAINT ETIENNE · Jun 8, 2020

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is investigating how certain sounds, like shouting or screaming, can affect how much pain a person can tolerate. Researchers want to understand how these non-verbal vocalizations influence pain levels in healthy adults. The trial is currently recruiting participants aged between 65 to 74 years and also those between 21 to 914 years, and is open to all genders.

To be eligible, participants should be in good health and have access to social security. However, individuals with certain conditions, such as chronic pain, heart problems, diabetes, or neurological issues, will not be able to take part. If you join the study, you will receive detailed information about what to expect and will need to sign a consent form. This trial aims to shed light on how our reactions to sounds can impact our experiences of pain, which could have important implications for understanding human behavior and health.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Participant in good health
• • Affiliated or entitled participant in a social security scheme
• • Participant who received informed information about the study and co-signed, with the investigator, a consent to participate in the study
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Chronic pain
• • High blood pressure or poor circulation
• • Cardiac or vascular disease, or a heart condition (including symptoms of Raynaud's syndrome)
• • Allergy or hypersensitivity to cold
• • Diabetes
• • Epilepsy
• • Pregnancy
• • Recent serious injury
• • Neurological or psychiatric condition known to affect pain tolerance (e.g., peripheral neuropathy, schizophrenia)
• • History of fainting or seizures
• • History of frostbite