The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) labels chronic pain as one of the most extensive health care issues facing our society with "severe impacts on all aspects of the lives of its sufferers."1 Pain predominant chronic multisymptom illness (Pain-CMI, e.g., fibromyalgia) is a particularly debilitating and presumptive service connected condition for Veterans who deployed to the Gulf region. Health coaching is an appealing potential approach to improve the disability of Pain-CMI because it is personalized to the Veteran's unique goals and beliefs about Pain-CMI and it will be widely available as the VA is rolling out health coaching. The goal of this proposal is to understand if health coaching is also efficacious for a complex pain condition, Pain-CMI.
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World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule
Timeframe: Post-treatment (12 weeks)
Brief Pain Inventory
Timeframe: post-treatment (12-weeks)
World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule
Timeframe: follow up (24 week)
Brief Pain Inventory
Timeframe: follow-up (24 weeks)