MEPS-Pain: Personalized Pain Self-management Planning by and for Veterans Pilot Study

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Conditions studied: Chronic Low Back Pain

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04075487

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

20

Starts

2022-06-21

Expected to finish

2023-07-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-07-31

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• 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

Where it is running

• Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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