Social and Chronic Pain

Veterans Sharing a Path in Developing a Patient-Centered Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID22158149
AutoresCheryl A Krause‐parello (0000-0002-4871-6759, Florida Atlantic University, autor de correspondencia), Linda Flynn (0000-0002-8659-748X, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), David Hibler (0000-0002-9459-3155, The Ohio State University), Ralph Edward Presciutti (0000-0003-4450-3956), Beth A Pratt (0000-0002-9598-617X, Florida Atlantic University), Patrick Walsh (0000-0003-3574-6809, University of Rochester), Jane T Garvin (0000-0001-6023-3269, Augusta University Health), Catherine Y Morse (0000-0002-8547-9967, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), LaShaunda Carter (0000-0003-0744-0271), S Juliana Moreno (0000-0003-2855-9888, Florida Atlantic University)
Año2022
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas266-277
Fecha de publicación2022-07-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Veterans Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2470-4768 • E-ISSN: 2470-4768
EditorialVirginia Tech Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21061/jvs.v8i1.331
OpenAlexW4285271427
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas28

The COVID-19 Pandemic limited access to healthcare, engagement in research, and disrupted formal and informal peer and community support systems. As a result, a multistate project using Think Tank Meetings (TTMs) to uncover the needs of veterans experiencing chronic pain was expanded. The expanded project sought to identify factors supporting social engagement, describe COVID-19 pandemic-related dilemmas, and provide recommendations for researchers seeking to engage veterans during times of pandemics and social isolation. The project team used field note templates to summarize veterans’ dialogue during TTMs. Collated summaries were analyzed using open and axial coding. In total 151 veterans and stakeholders participated in TTMs across four US states: Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, and New York. Discussions focused on the following aspects of participants’ pandemic experiences: managing chronic pain, managing social isolation, veterans’ research priorities, and strategies that researchers might use to engage veterans in research during a pandemic. Recommendations for clinical practice, public policy, and future research are presented. Derived from veteran recommendations, a Veteran-Centered Coronavirus Toolkit for Researchers was developed and consists of: (a) field note templates used in this project, (b) veterans’ recommendations for effective researcher-veteran engagement strategies during times of social isolation, (c) a checklist for Veteran-Centered Research Engagement that can guide researchers during times of widespread social isolation, (d) a veteran-generated COVID-19 pandemic Patient-Centered/Comparative Effectiveness research agenda including examples of novel Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) questions. The researcher toolkit is available at https://nursing.fau.edu/documents/cpaww/val-toolkit.pdf. Information presented in this paper is intended for veterans and key stakeholders to collaboratively engage in chronic-pain-related patient-centered outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research

Checklist · Community engagement · Disease · Health care · Medical education · Pandemic · Political science · Psychiatry · Public relations · Social isolation · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout · Medicine · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Nursing · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology