Randomized Trial of Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in the Community or Clinic for Low-Income Primary Care Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with chronic pain often lack the skills and resources necessary to manage this disease.

Objective

To develop a chronic pain self-management program reflecting community stakeholders' priorities and to compare functional outcomes from training in two settings.

Design

A parallel-group randomized trial.

Participants

Eligible subjects were 35-70 years of age, with chronic non-cancer pain treated with opioids for >2 months at two primary care and one HIV clinic serving low-income Hispanics.

Interventions

In one study arm, the 6-month program was delivered in monthly one-on-one clinic meetings by a community health worker (CHW) trained as a chronic pain health educator, and in the second arm, content experts gave eight group lectures in a n

SUBMITTER: Turner BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5910333 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature