Provider Perspectives of Facilitators and Barriers to Reaching and Utilizing Chronic Pain Healthcare for Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Qualitative NIDILRR and VA TBI Model Systems Collaborative Project.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify facilitators and barriers to reaching and utilizing chronic pain treatments for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI) organized around an Access to Care framework, which includes dimensions of access to healthcare as a function of supply (ie, provider/system) and demand (ie, patient) factors for a specified patient population.

Setting

Community.

Participants

Clinicians (n = 63) with experience treating persons with TBI were interviewed between October 2020 and November 2021.

Design

Descriptive, qualitative study.

Main measures

Semistructured open-ended interview of chronic pain management for persons with TBI. Informed by the Access to Care framework, responses were coded by and categorized within the core domains (reaching care

SUBMITTER: Nakase-Richardson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10768799 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Feb 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature