MEPS-Pain: Personalized Pain Self-management Planning by and for Veterans Pilot Study
CompletedNot applicableNCT04075487
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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 low back pain is the #1 cause of disability and low quality of life in Veterans. Pain is a huge burden- stealing enjoyment, fulfillment, and time. Sometimes surgery, injections, or medications can help but sometimes not. Although no one solution fixes chronic low back pain, there are many treatments that can reduce pain impact and restore quality of life. These treatments involve: movement, psychology, mind-and-body therapies, sleep, and environmental factors. The challenge is how to best coordinate these treatments for chronic low back pain. The investigators have built a prototype mobile application that delivers the latest information to Veterans so they can work with healthcare providers to build their own pain self-management plans. With this new tool, the Veteran has data at hand and chooses their preferred pain self-management activities, making a coordinated plan that can be shared with their healthcare team. The investigators' goal is giving Veterans the knowledge and power to 'plan the work and work the plan' for chronic low back pain: restoring value, fulfillment, and meaning.
Study details
- Official title
- Evidence-Based Multidimensional Pain Self-Management Planning: Personalized by and for Veterans Via Web-Based Application
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Web-module for patient education and planning
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Collaborators
- VA Maryland Health Care System
- Start date
- 2022-06-21
- Primary completion
- 2023-07-31
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Veterans receiving care at the VAMHCS * frequent or persistent low back pain (\> 3 months) * pain \>4 on a 0-10 numeric rating scale * willing to participate in trial of non-pharmacological therapies for pain * ability to speak, read, and write as needed for study * stable treatment Exclusion Criteria: * Veterans with cognitive or visual impairment limiting the ability to engage in self-directed self-management planning * anticipated surgery or pain procedure during the expected study period
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04075487