Online "Pain, Stress & Emotions" Class in Chronic Pain

Members with chronic pain will be invited to participate in a 2-hour zoom-delivered pain psychology class entitled "Pain, Stress, & Emotions". Surveys are completed at baseline (prior to the online class), a satisfaction survey is completed after the class, and post-treatment surveys completed 2, 4, 8, and 12 1weeks after class attendance.

2-hour, zoom-delivered, group intervention focused on teaching patients how pain is processed in their brain and learning about the role of psychosocial factors in their pain conditions.

Two self-report questionnaires were developed to assess psychological and brain influences on pain. The 4-item psychological attribution scale assesses patients' beliefs that their thoughts and feelings and psychological therapy impacts pain, and the 3-item brain attribution scale assesses patient's beliefs that their pain is brain-based. Mean scores will be computed for both scales separately (0-4; higher scores indicating greater belief that pain is a brain-related [brain attribution] construct and that pain is affected by thoughts, feelings, and psychological interventions [psychological attribution])

Pain Catastrophizing Scale (Sullivan et al., 1995): A summed score of the 13 catastrophizing items will be computed (0-52, higher scores indicate greater catastrophizing)

Inclusion Criteria: Chronic pain condition (pain > 3 months) Access to the internet English fluency Exclusion Criteria: Ongoing legal action or disability claim Cognitive impairment, non-English speaking, or psychological factors that would preclude comprehension of material and/or full participation in the study.

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