Cited by 111Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationDigital Mental Health InterventionsTelemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

Therapeutic Interactive Voice Response for chronic pain reduction and relapse prevention

Open access
Naylor, Magdalena R., Keefe, Francis J., Brigidi, Bart, Naud, Shelly, Helzer, John E.·2008·Pain

Abstract

We developed Therapeutic Interactive Voice Response (TIVR) as an automated, telephone-based tool for maintenance enhancement following group cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for chronic pain. TIVR has four components: a daily self-monitoring questionnaire, a didactic review of coping skills, pre-recorded behavioral rehearsals of coping skills, and monthly personalized feedback messages from the CBT therapist based on a review of the patient’s daily reports. The first three components are pre-recorded and all four can be accessed remotely by patients via touch-tone telephone on demand. Following 11 weeks of group CBT, 51 subjects with chronic musculoskeletal pain were randomized to one of two study groups. Twenty-six subjects participated in 4 months of TIVR, while a control group of 25 subjects received standard care only. The TIVR group showed maximum improvement over baseline at the 8-month follow-up for seven of the eight outcome measures; improvement was found to be significant for all outcomes (p ≤ .001). Between-group analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) revealed significantly greater improvement for the experimental group at both 4- and 8-month follow-ups for most of the outcomes. Results demonstrate that TIVR can be used to decrease pain, improve coping and decrease likelihood of relapse into pain behavior. Preliminary analysis of medication usage suggests that the superior outcome of the TIVR group was unlikely to be a consequence of differential medication use.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.pain.2007.11.001

Cites

41 of 41 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Gandek B, Ware J., Jr Translating functional health and well-being: IQOLA Project studies of the SF-36 health survey. J Clin Epidemiol. 1998;51:953–959. [Google Scholar]
  2. Kabat-Zinn J, Lipworth L, Burney R, Sellers W. Four year follow-up of a meditation-based program for the self-regulation of chronic pain: Treatment outcomes and compliance. Clinical J Pain. 1986;2:159–173. [Google Scholar]
  3. Marlatt GA, Gordon JR. Relapse Prevention. New York, NY: Guilford Press; 1985. [Google Scholar]

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Naylor, M. R., Keefe, F. J., Brigidi, B., Naud, S., & Helzer, J. E.
Affiliations
  • University of Vermont (US)
  • Duke University (US)
Corresponding author
Naylor, Magdalena R.
Venue
Pain
Published
2008-02
Volume
134
Issue
3
Pages
335-345
ISSN
0304-3959 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2105524065
Cited by
111
References
41
Citations by year
2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 7
FWCI
5.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Pain (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA014270)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21DA016115)
  • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R01AR059674, R01AR052131)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
Keywords
chronic pain, group cognitive behavioral therapy, telephone-delivered intervention, maintenance therapy, relapse prevention, coping strategies, self-monitoring, personalized feedback, musculoskeletal pain, medication use
MeSH terms
Chronic Disease, Humans, Middle Aged, Self-Assessment, Self Care, Therapy, Computer-Assisted, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Telemedicine, Secondary Prevention, Pain Management

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review