Project description
Personalising chronic pain’s psychological treatment
Chronic non-cancer pain (CP) profoundly impacts various aspects of an individual’s life. Psychological interventions play a crucial role in addressing this condition, yet they comprise several components. Currently, there is no precise classification of these components, nor is there information regarding which ones serve as the active ingredients supporting treatment effects, and which may be redundant or even harmful. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, the EU-funded RECOVER project aims to understand their fundamental building blocks, thereby optimising treatments and enhancing response rates. The project’s objectives include dissecting psychological interventions for chronic pain, reassessing their efficacy, investigating patient characteristics, and developing an open application to refine and personalise the psychological treatment of chronic pain.
Objective
Chronic non-cancer pain (CP) negatively impacts all areas of functioning, severely limiting quality of life and increasing the risk of mental disorders. Psychological interventions are a key part of treatment, with meta-analyses showing small to moderate effects on pain intensity and associated outcomes. Psychological interventions are themselves complex, with multiple, distinct components. There is presently no taxonomy of these components and no information about which components are the active ingredients supporting the treatment effect, which are redundant or even harmful and whether some patients respond better to some components rather than others. The RECOVER project is premised on two principles: (1) to optimize treatments, we need to know their building blocks; (2) to improve treatment response, we need to examine patient-level predictors of responses. The aims of RECOVER are (a) decomposing complex psychological interventions for CP; (b) re-evaluating efficacy by examining the specific contributions of components and combinations; c) examining patient characteristics (e.g.,age gender, pain history) predictive of better response to components or combinations and d) creating an open app based on the project findings, allowing users to personalize treatment by selecting the most effective components. The methodology will involve retrieving and reutilizing individual participant data from randomized controlled trials of psychological interventions for CP and using advanced meta-analytic methodology such as component network meta-analysis. Training activities will span the entire project duration, and the outcomes will be presented at international conferences and submitted to top-tier, peer-reviewed journals. RECOVER has the potential to make important strides toward optimizing and personalizing psychological treatment of chronic pain.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global FellowshipsCoordinator
35122 Padova
Italy