Telephone Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Veterans Undergoing Surgery

Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Veterans; Persistent Post-surgical Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Telephone-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03351309

201708823

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study team propose to investigate the feasibility and pilot a Telephone Cognitive Behavioral Therapy intervention for those identified to be at risk for chronic pain following surgery.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. >18 years of age, 2) scheduled for hernia repair, breast surgery, amputation, thoracotomy, cholecystectomy, cardiac surgery, splenectomy, orthopedic, urological or vascular surgery, 3) Rural dwelling

Exclusion criteria

1. language or cognitive barriers preventing completion of questionnaires, 2) severe psychiatric disorder: bipolar or psychotic disorder, 3) significant surgical complications.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

Telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention - Four session protocol plus routine perioperative management.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Telephone-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Treatment as Usual

No Intervention group

Description:

Treatment as Usual (TAU) - Routine perioperative management.