{"doi":"10.1093/pm/pnab018","title":"Electronic Delivery of Pain Education for Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions: A Prospective Cohort Study","abstract":"OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of educational materials for chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs), the feasibility of delivering materials online, and to explore its impact on self-reported self-management applications at 3-month follow-up. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Online. SUBJECTS: Individuals from a university-wide active research repository with ≥1 coded diagnostic COPC by ICD-9/10 in the medical record. METHODS: We determined the number of COPCs per participant as indicated by diagnostic codes in the medical record. Consenting participants completed self-report questionnaires and read educational materials. We assessed content awareness and knowledge pre- and post-exposure to education. Comprehension was assessed via embedded questions in reading materials in real time. Participants then completed assessments regarding concept retention, self-management engagement, and pain-related symptoms at 3-months. RESULTS: N = 216 individuals enrolled, with 181 (84%) completing both timepoints. Results indicated that participants understood materials. Knowledge and understanding of COPCs increased significantly after education and was retained at 3-months. Patient characteristics suggested the number of diagnosed COPCs was inversely related to age. Symptoms or self-management application did not change significantly over the 3-month period. CONCLUSIONS: The educational materials facilitated teaching of key pain concepts in self-management programs, which translated easily into an electronic format. Education alone may not elicit self-management engagement or symptom reduction in this population; however, conclusions are limited by the study's uncontrolled design. Education is likely an important and meaningful first step in comprehensive COPC self-management.","journal":"Pain Medicine","year":2021,"id":204806,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":3,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.793,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":417981,"name":"Leslie J. Crofford","orcid":"0000-0002-6347-5738","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":105914,"name":"Ahra Kim","orcid":"0000-0003-4510-7453","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":86855,"name":"Simon Vandekar","orcid":"0000-0002-7457-9073","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":787652,"name":"William S Reynolds","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":787243,"name":"Kathryn Hansen","orcid":"0000-0002-6421-103X","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":270290,"name":"Daniel J. Clauw","orcid":"0000-0002-8114-7818","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":328075,"name":"David A. Williams","orcid":"0000-0002-5052-4895","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":483510,"name":"Lindsey C. McKernan","orcid":"0000-0001-9419-8502","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":43,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:51:26.121843Z","pmid":"33871025","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}