Challenges and visions for managing pain-related insomnia in primary care using the hybrid CBT approach: a small-scale qualitative interview study with GPs, nurses, and practice managers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic pain and insomnia have a complex, bidirectional relationship - addressing sleep complaints alongside pain may be key to alleviating patient-reported distress and disability. Healthcare professionals have consistently reported wanting to offer psychologically informed chronic pain management at the primary care level. Research in secondary care has demonstrated good treatment efficacy of hybrid CBT for chronic pain and insomnia. However, primary care is typically the main point of treatment entry, hence may be better situated to offer treatments using a multidisciplinary approach. In this study, primary care service providers' perception of feasibility for tackling pain-related insomnia in primary care was explored.

Methods

The data corpus originates from a

SUBMITTER: Collard VEJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527665 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature