Peer Support for Self-Management of Chronic Pain: the Evaluation of a Peer Coach-Led Intervention to Improve Pain Symptoms (ECLIPSE) Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain self-management is an effective, evidence-based treatment for chronic pain. Peer support, in which patients serve as coaches for other patients, has been effective in other chronic conditions and is a potentially promising approach to implementing pain self-management programs using fewer clinical resources.

Objective

To test a peer coach-delivered pain self-management program for chronic pain.

Design

Randomized controlled trial.

Participants

Veterans with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Intervention

Intervention patients were assigned a trained peer coach for 6 months. Coaches, who were volunteers, were asked to contact their assigned patients, either by phone or in person, twice per month. Coaches and patients were given an intervention m

SUBMITTER: Matthias MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7728830 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature