A Community-Based Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in West Virginia
CompletedNot applicableNCT03582683
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Chronic pain (CP) affects 1 in 3 US adults and costs up to $635 billion annually in medical costs and lost work productivity. Use of opioid medications for CP has risen in the US, and opioid overdose deaths have quadrupled, yet with no overall change in pain. Although one-third of US adults have CP, there is a lack of affordable, non-pharmacological, evidence-based, community-delivered interventions for people with CP. One program, the Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP), provides short-term improvements in pain but its long-term effects have not been evaluated. This study will examine the long-term effects of CPSMP in the medically underserved state of West Virginia (WV). The objectives of this community-engaged, randomized, wait-list controlled study are to: 1) determine the short- (26 weeks) and long-term (52 weeks) effectiveness of the 6-week CPSMP in adults with CP in WV; 2) evaluate the Reach (number of participants, completers), Effectiveness (outcomes), Adoption (number of sites, leaders, trainings), Implementation (fidelity), and Maintenance (satisfaction, continuation) of CPSMP using the RE-AIM Framework; and 3) disseminate the results to key stakeholders including evidence-based organizations, public health practitioners/researchers, and healthcare providers. The study will enroll 240 participants in 24 workshops at 12 community-based sites in 2 counties in WV, Greenbrier (rural) and Wood (urban). Participants will attend free, 2.5-hour weekly sessions for 6 weeks. Self-reported, performance-based, and physiological data will be collected at baseline and 26, and 52 weeks after the start of the intervention. The primary outcomes are pain (severity, quality, interference, medication use), mental health (mood, anxiety, catastrophizing), function (self-efficacy, coping, health-related quality of life, sleep, fatigue, communication, physical activity), healthcare utilization, missed work days, and gait speed.
Study details
- Official title
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Community-Based Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in West Virginia
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP)
- Sponsor
- West Virginia University
- Collaborators
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine; Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department
- Start date
- 2018-06-18
- Primary completion
- 2021-04-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Adults over age 18 * Have chronic pain (pain on most days or everyday) for the past 3 months or more * Able to attend 1 CPSMP workshop a week over 6 weeks * Able to attend 3-4 testing sessions for data collection (testing sessions are scheduled before the workshops begin and then six months, one year and, for those assigned to the control group, one and a half years after the start of the study) Exclusion Criteria: * Chronic pain caused by current cancer diagnosis or an open wound * Lack reliable transportation * Having surgery for the painful area in the next year * Not community-dwelling (i.e., living in a nursing home, assisted living or personal care home, mental hospital, or correctional facility) * Not willing to be randomized to either start CPSMP workshop now or in six months * Participation in another self-management program (e.g., Diabetes Self-Management Program) in the past 12 months * Unable to speak English
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03582683