Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Aging People Living With HIV in Chronic Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03699020
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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 impacts a large proportion of aging people living with HIV (aPLWH) and involves factors directly related to HIV (neurotoxicity) and psychosocial co-morbidities common in aPLWH (i.e. social isolation and loneliness). The investigators hypothesize that novel interventions that acknowledge these psychosocial co-morbidities may improve the efficacy of chronic pain management and minimize the use of potentially dangerous medications. This grant proposes to adapt and pilot a pain psychotherapy approach using group acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in aPLWH with chronic pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Address the Psychosocial Co-Morbidities of Chronic Pain in Aging People Living With HIV
- Conditions
- Hiv/Aids
- Chronic Pain
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Other: Chronic Pain Education
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Diego
- Collaborators
- National Institute on Aging (NIA)
- Start date
- 2019-01-07
- Primary completion
- 2022-06-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 50 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * HIV seropositive * Diagnosis of chronic non cancer pain * English speaking * Deemed appropriate for study by primary care provider * Consents to participation Exclusion Criteria: * Cancer associated pain * Unwillingness to participate in audio recorded sessions * Enrollment in hospice * Moderate to severe neurocognitive deficits (MOCA \< 16) * Currently undergoing other psychotherapy for chronic pain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03699020