Pilot of Peers Enhancing Engagement for Pain Services
CompletedNot applicableNCT05681520
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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 non-cancer pain is common among Veterans, and more work is needed to understand how best to support Veterans with chronic pain to improve pain-related function and quality of life. Peer specialists may be valuable resource to support Veterans in pain management. Peer specialists, individuals with lived experience who are hired and trained to work with Veterans, are increasingly being used outside traditional mental health settings. More research is needed to understand how best to train peer specialists to work in new settings and with new presenting problems, such as chronic pain. Peer support to help Veterans improve pain-related function, increase physical activity, and engage in recommended pain care, is especially needed. In this study, the investigators will finalize a peer-led intervention and then pilot it with 24 Veterans with chronic pain in order to establish feasibility and acceptability; results will be used to develop a larger proposal testing the intervention in a randomized trial.
Study details
- Official title
- Pilot of Peers Enhancing Engagement for Pain Services
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: PEEPS
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
- Start date
- 2023-04-10
- Primary completion
- 2024-10-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Veteran receiving care from VA Connecticut Healthcare System * referred to a VA Connecticut Pain Management Team * has high-impact chronic pain as defined by the Graded Chronic Pain Scale - Revised * willing/able to participate in sessions either in person or via video Exclusion Criteria: * moderate to severe cognitive impairment or apparent difficulty communicating with the research staff * inability to read or understand English * severely impaired hearing or speech that would preclude them from participating in telephone interviews
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05681520