Empowering Pain Psychology Access and Collaboration (EPPAC) to Improve Treatment Engagement Among Medicaid-insured Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain
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Official title
Empowering Pain Psychology Access and Collaboration (EPPAC) to Improve Treatment Engagement Among Medicaid-insured Adults With Chronic Low Back Pain: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief summary
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Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is a leading cause of disability, with socioeconomically disadvantaged populations experiencing worse outcomes and lower rates of treatment initiation for evidence-based pain psychology services. Participant engagement strategies such as shared decision-making (SDM) and motivational interviewing (MI) have shown promise in improving treatment uptake, but no study has examined whether integrating these approaches into a pain psychology evaluation can improve engagement among socioeconomically disadvantaged participants or offered participants a structured choice between cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and emotional awareness and expression therapy (EAET), presented to participants as Pain and Emotion Reprocessing Therapy (PERT). The Empowering Pain Psychology Access and Collaboration (EPPAC) intervention, a brief, psychologist-led engagement strategy combining SDM and MI within a standard pain psychology evaluation, was developed to address this gap.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT07843706
- Recruitment status
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 70 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Empowering Pain Psychology Access and Collaboration (EPPAC) Behavioral
- Usual Care Pain Psychology Evaluation Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 64 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 15, 2026 (Estimated)
- Primary completion
- Aug 31, 2028 (Estimated)
- Completion
- Feb 28, 2029 (Estimated)
- Last update posted
- Sep 28, 2026
2026 – 2029
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins Rehabilitation Psychology Clinic | Baltimore | Maryland | 21205 | — |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Sep 28, 2026 · Synced Oct 2, 2026
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