Remote CBT Programs Effective For Treating High-Impact Chronic Pain

Remote, scalable, cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain (CBT-CP) treatments, delivered either via telehealth or through self-completed modules online, resulted in improvements in pain and related functional/quality-of-life outcomes compared with usual care among individuals with high-impact chronic pain, a study has found. The lower-resource CBT-CP treatments could improve the availability of evidence-based nonpharmacologic pain treatments within health care systems, the study concluded. 

The comparison assigned participants to either one of two intervention groups or to usual care. The two intervention groups received active treatment with similar content. One intervention group experienced . . .