Predictors of intervention session completion in a randomized clinical trial of a behavioral cancer pain intervention
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management Mar 09, 2020
Winger JG, Nunez C, Kelleher SA, et al. - As psychosocial pain management intervention sessions are completed by some patients with cancer and others find it difficult to do so, researchers sought to determine if intervention session completion predicts postintervention outcomes of pain severity and interference, psychological distress, physical well-being, and pain self-efficacy. Further, they investigated the predictors (ie, demographics, medical characteristics, baseline outcome scores) of session completion. For these purposes, they conducted a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial (N = 178) that compared delivery formats (in-person vs videoconference) of a pain coping skills training (PCST) intervention for patients with cancer. Outcomes suggest the completion of PCST sessions as important for improving pain outcomes. Completion of all sessions was more frequently observed among participants in the videoconference condition, among participants with at least some college education, among those with a diagnosis of breast cancer, and among those with higher levels of pain self-efficacy and among those who lived closer to the medical center, had early-stage cancer, and fewer medical comorbidities.
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