Toward Thriving: A Set of Reflective Tools to Empower Chronic Pain Patients and Help Them Envision a Personal Path to Thriving.

University of Michigan

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Treatments

Behavioral: Self-guided at home activities

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT05847881

UM1TR004404 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

HUM00176302

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to introduce and test the usefulness of a reflective process meant to empower people with chronic pain and help support participant's resiliency and thriving.

The study team hypothesizes that:

-Greater or equal to 80 percent of participants will report that the intervention was relatively easy to understand after orientation, low burden, potentially effective, and will have completed at least 2 of the 3 reflective tools.

Enrollment

23 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Persistent or recurrent pain lasting longer than 3 months
Able to read and write English

Exclusion criteria

Cancer (History of any bone-related cancer or cancer that metastasized to the bone; Currently in treatment for any cancer or plan to start cancer treatment in the next 12 months; History of any cancer treatment in the last 24 months)
Active substance abuse
Uncontrolled depression or psychosis
Visual or hearing difficulties that would preclude participation
Individuals started receiving disability or compensation within the past year, or currently involved in litigation
Current/planned (in the next 2 years) enrollment in another study of a device or investigational drug that would interfere with this study, this may include participation in a blinded trial.
Any other diseases or conditions that would make a patient unsuitable for study participation as determined by the site principal investigators. This would include but not be limited to severe psychiatric disorders, active suicidal ideations or history of suicide attempts, and an uncontrolled drug and/or alcohol addiction)