A Personalized Self-Management Program for Older Adults With Chronic Pain and Negative Emotions
Pain, Chronic, Negative Emotions
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Pain, Chronic
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
Patient Participants:
- 60 and older
- chronic pain (pain on most days in past 2 months)
- negative emotions
- MoCA score 16 or higher
Provider Participants:
- providers 18 or over that took care of patient participant
Exclusion Criteria - Patient Participants:
- MoCA score <16
- cancer related pain
- can not provide capacity to consent
Sites / Locations
- Center on Aging (formerly Wright Center on Aging)
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Experimental
No Intervention
No Intervention
Path Pain
Usual Care with Education
Provider Feedback
Path Pain participants will be receiving 8 weekly therapy session by license clinicians trained in the Path Pain intervention. They will also receive 4, 15-minute phone booster sessions, on a monthly basis after their final therapy session. They will also be invited to monthly group educational sessions. Both intervention and usual care participants will be receiving a pain educational booklet.
Usual Care with Education (UCE) will receive a pain educational booklet. Following completion of their 24 weeks in the study, they will also be invited to attend the monthly group educational sessions.
Providers of patients in the study will take part in a short interview on their impressions of the intervention.