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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Pain Management Research
  • Patient-Reported Outcomes

Background:

  • Chronic pain is a significant challenge for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).
  • Understanding factors that help or hinder pain management is crucial for improving quality of life.
  • Existing research often focuses on treatment efficacy, with less emphasis on the lived experience of pain contributors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and rank the importance of facilitators (positive contributors) and barriers (negative contributors) to living with chronic pain post-SCI.
  • To explore the dimensions underlying these factors and their association with the perceived difficulty of managing pain.

Main Methods:

  • A mixed-methods approach was employed, starting with qualitative interviews (n=35) to identify themes.
  • Quantitative online surveys (n=491) were used to assess the relative importance of identified facilitators and barriers.
  • Exploratory factor analysis was used to reduce themes and analyze associations with pain management difficulty.

Main Results:

  • Four key facilitators were identified: information on pain/treatments, resilience, coping strategies, and medication use.
  • Five primary barriers emerged: poor healthcare communication, pain's impact/limitations, poor communication about pain, the difficult nature of pain, and treatment concerns.
  • Greater pain impact, difficult pain nature, poor provider communication, lower resilience, increased medication use, and younger age predicted greater difficulty in managing pain.

Conclusions:

  • Poor healthcare communication is a principal barrier, highlighting inadequate information flow from providers to patients regarding pain.
  • "Information regarding pain and treatments" emerged as a critical facilitator, indicating a high priority for educational efforts and provider communication.
  • Targeted initiatives to improve provider-patient communication and pain education are essential for enhancing pain management outcomes in the SCI population.