Cooperative Pain Education and Self-management: Expanding Treatment for Real-world Access (COPES ExTRA)

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Pain, Chronic

In brief

To conduct a superiority trial of COPES versus standard Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Chronic Pain (CBT-CP)

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03469505

Run by

Yale University

People needed

764

Starts

2019-12-20

Expected to finish

2025-02-20

Last updated by the study team

2026-06-12

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain receiving care in VHA.
• A pain-related musculoskeletal diagnosis indicated by an EHR identified ICD-9 or -10 code.
• The presence of chronic pain of at least moderate severity with EHR NRS pain scores ≥ 4 in three separate months for a period of 12 months.
• Absence of mental illness serious enough to have resulted in an inpatient psychiatric hospitalization in the prior 3 months excluding detoxification of alcohol or drugs.
• Absence of malignant cancer diagnosis or receipt of hospice or end-of-life palliative care.
• Ability to participate safely in the walking portion of the intervention as evidenced by patient-reported ability to walk at least one block and absence of diabetic foot ulcers at the time of the enrollment.
• Absence of significant cognitive impairment as identified by a dementia-related diagnosis.
• Availability of a touch-tone land-line or cellular telephone and no vision or hearing deficits that would impair participation verified by patient report at the time of the enrollment call.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients not fitting criteria for inclusion.

Where it is running

• Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital — Hines, Illinois, United States
• VA Central Western Massachusetts — Leeds, Massachusetts, United States
• VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center — Jackson, Mississippi, United States
• Oklahoma City VA Health Care System — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
• Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center — Charleston, South Carolina, United States
• VA North Texas Healthcare System — Dallas, Texas, United States
• VA Central Texas Healthcare System — Temple, Texas, United States
• VA Puget Sound Healthcare System — Seattle, Washington, United States

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