Clinical and cost-effectiveness of an online-delivered group-based pain management programme in improving pain-related disability for people with persistent pain—protocol for a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial (iSelf-help trial)

Hale, Leigh; Devan, Hemakumar; Davies, Cheryl; Dean, Sarah Gerard; Dowell, Anthony; Grainger, Rebecca; Gray, Andrew R; Hempel, Dagmar; Ingham, Tristram; Jones, Bernadette; Leung, William; Mills, Jessica; Saipe, Barbara; Shipton, Edward; Perry, Meredith

doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046376

Clinical and cost-effectiveness of an online-delivered group-based pain management programme in improving pain-related disability for people with persistent pain—protocol for a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial (iSelf-help trial)

Introduction Persistent non-cancer pain affects one in five adults and is more common in Māori—the Indigenous population of New Zealand (NZ), adults over 65 years, and people living in areas of high deprivation. Despite the evidence supporting multidisciplinary pain management programmes (PMPs), …