CIH Stepped Care for Co-occurring Chronic Pain and PTSD (NCT06219408) | Clinical Trial Compass
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CIH Stepped Care for Co-occurring Chronic Pain and PTSD
United States60 participantsStarted 2026-02-18
Plain-language summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, appropriateness, and retention of patient participants of a CIH Stepped Care approach for co-occurring chronic pain and PTSD vs. treatment as usual in two primary care settings (one rural and one urban).
Researchers will compare CIH Stepped Care to treatment as usual.
Participants will complete assessments at baseline, 3-months, 6-months, and 9-months, and those in the CIH Stepped Care condition will participate in the intervention while also completed assessments every 2-weeks, which helps determine their treatment.
We hypothesize that, at 6-months, CIH Stepped Care will be feasible, acceptable, and appropriate (defined by an average of 4/5 on each measure) to patients and clinic employees and result in at least 70% of individuals be retained in each condition (n=21 per condition).
Who can participate
Age range18 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion criteria
✓. Aged 18 years or older
✓. A clinic employee and/or trainee
✓. Aged 18 years or older
✓. English-speaking
✓. A patient at the clinic from which recruitment occurs
✓. Endorse chronic pain (defined as experiencing pain on more than half of the days of the past 3-months)
✓. Endorse at least moderate pain severity and interference (defined as at least an average of 4 on the PEG)
✓. Endorse at least 31 on the PCL-5, in combination with a Criterion A traumatic event. If we have difficulties in recruiting individuals who meet our PTSD diagnosis criteria, we will modify this criteria by removing the requirement of a Criterion A traumatic event, and require a destabilizing life event instead.
Exclusion criteria
✕. In current treatment for chronic pain and/or PTSD at their respective clinic