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

NCT04075487 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2025-07-31

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Web-module for patient education and planning

Our goal is a mobile web-based application (App) that provides immediate feedback to Veterans seeking to develop their own pain self-management plan

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Maryland Health Care System

    collaborator FED

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Beth B. Hogans, MD · Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-21
Primary Completion
2023-07-31
Completion
2023-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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