Evaluation of the efficacy and mechanisms of a novel intervention for chronic pain tailored to people with HIV: The STOMP protocol.

Jones KF, Bair MJ, Orris SM, Johnson M, Liebschutz JM, Demonte W, Clay OJ, Durr AL, Farel CE, Agil D, Burkholder G, Johnson B, Conder K, Leone M, Napravnik S, Thomas T, Browne L, King K, Mullen L, Merlin J. Evaluation of the efficacy and mechanisms of a novel intervention for chronic pain tailored to people with HIV: The STOMP protocol. Contemporary clinical trials. 2023 Jun 1; 129:107163.

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BACKGROUND: Behavioral interventions for chronic pain among people with HIV (PWH) are understudied, with great potential to improve pain and function. Chronic pain is an important comorbidity that affects between 30% and 85% of PWH and is associated with greater odds of functional impairment, increased emergency room utilization, suboptimal retention in HIV care, and failure to achieve virologic suppression. However, to date, there are few effective and scalable interventions for chronic pain in PWH. OBJECTIVE: This manuscript outlines the protocol for a randomized control trial of a novel theory-based pain self-management intervention, "Skills TO Manage Pain" (STOMP), developed for and tailored to PWH versus enhanced usual care controls. STOMP is a 12-week intervention developed from prior work on pain self-management in PWH and rigorous intervention mapping. The STOMP intervention has three major components: group sessions, one-on-one pain self-management sessions, and peer leaders. METHODS: STOMP is a 2-arm randomized trial conducted with PWH with chronic pain. The trial compares STOMP, a theory-based intervention tailored to improving chronic pain in PWH, with a comparison group receiving enhanced usual care effectiveness on pain and HIV proximal outcome measures. The proposed sample size is 280 PWH recruited from two high-volume Center for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems clinical sites. RESULTS: Study procedures are ongoing, and results will be recorded in future manuscripts. CONCLUSION: The study will generate evidence on the effectiveness of STOMP with the potential to dramatically change chronic pain treatment for PWH. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicialtrials.gov, Clinical Trials Registration # NCT03692611https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03692611?term = STOMPandcond = Hivanddraw = 2andrank = 1.