Personalizing Veteran Pain Care: Adapting Coaching Interventions to Support Maintenance of Self-Care
VA Office of Research and Development
Summary
Half of all Veterans who seek care from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) experience chronic musculoskeletal pain. First-line treatment for chronic pain should include nonpharmacological interventions. Although Veterans have access to these interventions, there is no standardized process to personalize them to meet the needs of individual Veterans despite the fact that personalization and self-care are key components of the VHA's Stepped Care Model for pain management. This proposal seeks to adapt and evaluate a coaching intervention that will be a personalized approach to help Veterans develop and maintain pain self-care plans. The proposed research responds to VHA's strategic objectives to tailor service delivery (obj. 2.2) and develop or adapt interventions that improve Veteran outcomes (obj. 2.4).
Description
The overall purpose of this research is to design and test an intervention that will support Veterans in developing and maintaining a self-care plan for chronic pain. This study will use a multi-stage mixed methods intervention development and optimization design. The first stage (Aim 1) is a convergent mixed methods design that incorporates traditional qualitative, human-centered design, and quantitative methods to discover Veteran and clinician preferences and recommendations for an intervention to support personalization and maintenance of pain self-care plans. The second stage (Aim 2) uses…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * U.S. military Veteran * Chronic musculoskeletal pain defined by the National Health Interview Survey (pain that has been present on most days for the past 3 months) Exclusion Criteria: * Moderate to Severe cognitive impairment * Severe or untreated substance use disorder * Severe or untreated mental health condition * Enrolled in hospice or palliative care with life expectancy \<12 months
Interventions
- BehavioralCoaching
The intervention will likely incorporate health coaching to support participants in developing and maintaining their pain self-care plans. Details of the intervention will be updated prior to enrollment because the core components may changed based on findings from stages 1 and 2 (aims 1 and 2).
Location
- Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, COAurora, Colorado