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Pain and Loneliness

NCT05455476 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 48

Last updated 2025-12-18

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Summary

Loneliness-feeling socially isolated-is a stressor that is associated with chronic pain. The investigators will first conduct a small trial of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Loneliness (CBT-L)in Veterans with chronic pain reporting loneliness. After completing this small trial, the investigators will randomize-like a flip of a coin-a total of 40 participants to receive either CBT-L or CBT for Chronic Pain. The investigators will assess loneliness, the quality and quantity of social interactions, and pain outcomes such as pain-related interference, and thinking the worst about one's pain at baseline and after the treatment period. The investigators will also track participant flow, therapist adherence to the manual, participant homework completion, and participant satisfaction with the treatment.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CBT for Loneliness

CBT delivered over the course of 8, \~45 minute sessions delivered via telehealth more centrally focused addressing factors contributing to loneliness and social isolation.

BEHAVIORAL

CBT for Chronic Pain

CBT delivered over the course of 8, \~45 minute sessions delivered via telehealth broadly focused on increasing quality of life despite being in pain.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Lisham Ashrafioun, PhD · VA Finger Lakes Healthcare System, Canandaigua, NY

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-04-01
Primary Completion
2024-11-30
Completion
2024-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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