Counseling Veterans with Chronic Pain During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Veterans with chronic pain could be vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. We qualitatively explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a sample of veterans receiving brief counseling focused on pain management in an ongoing clinical trial and discuss how the pandemic affected the process of motivating veterans with chronic pain to engage in interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment at the Department of Veteran Affairs.

Methods

Segments of audio-recorded counseling sessions containing content about the pandemic were transcribed and coded to identify key concepts emerging from individual counselor-participant transactions. Themes that emerged were examined with constant comparison analysis.

Results

Three major themes emerged. 1) The pandemic caused

SUBMITTER: Lazar CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8755363 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature