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Personalizing Veteran Pain Care: Adapting Coaching Interventions to Support Maintenance of Self-Care
Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Summary
Half of all Veterans who seek care from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) experience chronic musculoskeletal pain. First-line treatment for chronic pain should include nonpharmacological interventions. Although Veterans have access to these interventions, there is no standardized process to personalize them to meet the needs of individual Veterans despite the fact that personalization and self-care are key components of the VHA's Stepped Care Model for pain management. This proposal seeks to adapt and evaluate a coaching intervention that will be a personalized approach to help Veterans develop and maintain pain self-care plans. The proposed research responds to VHA's strategic objectives to tailor service delivery (obj. 2.2) and develop or adapt interventions that improve Veteran outcomes (obj. 2.4).
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
30
Start Date
2029-01-01
Completion Date
2031-06-30
Last Updated
2026-03-06
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Coaching
The intervention will likely incorporate health coaching to support participants in developing and maintaining their pain self-care plans. Details of the intervention will be updated prior to enrollment because the core components may changed based on findings from stages 1 and 2 (aims 1 and 2).
Locations (1)
Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO
Aurora, Colorado, United States