ArticleJournal of psychosomatic research2020
One-day Acceptance and Commitment Therapy workshop for preventing persistent post-surgical pain and dysfunction in at-risk veterans: A randomized controlled trial protocol.
Article in Journal of psychosomatic research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06483191 (Acceptability and Feasibility of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Acceptability and Feasibility of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Intersectional pain disparities and resilience in veterans with chronic pain.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Trial
- ACT for postsurgical pain and dysfunction in at-risk veterans: Multisite, double-blind, cluster RCT.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2025Trial
- One-day acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) workshop improves anxiety but not vascular function or inflammation in adults with moderate to high anxiety levels in a randomized controlled trial.General hospital psychiatryTrial
- Biopsychosocial based machine learning models predict patient improvement after total knee arthroplasty.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A one-day acceptance and commitment therapy workshop for the prevention of chronic post-surgical pain and long-term opioid use following spine surgery: Protocol for a pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Feasibility and acceptability of a single-session perioperative acceptance and commitment therapy workshop for preventing chronic postsurgical pain: a single-arm, non-randomized pilot trial.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Demystifying the virtualization process: A call for standard reporting of virtual modifications to evidence-based psychotherapies, using the FRAME model.Translational behavioral medicine · 2024Article
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14 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivePersistent post-surgical pain is common among patients undergoing surgery, is detrimental to patients' quality of life, and can precipitate long-term opioid use. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to assess the effects of a behavioral intervention offered prior to surgery for patients at risk for poor post-surgical outcomes, including persistent pain and impaired functioning.
methodsDescribed herein is an ongoing randomized, patient- and assessor-blind, attention-controlled multisite clinical trial. Four hundred and thirty Veterans indicated for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with distress and/or pain will be recruited for this study. Participants will be randomly assigned to a one-day (~5 h) Acceptance and Commitment Therapy workshop or one-day education and attention control workshop. Approximately two weeks following their TKA surgery, patients receive an individualized booster session via phone. Following their TKA, patients complete assessments at 1 week, 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months.
resultsThe primary outcomes are pain intensity and knee-specific functioning; secondary outcomes are symptoms of distress and coping skills. Mediation analyses will examine whether changes in symptoms of distress and coping skills have an impact on pain and functioning at 6 months in Veterans receiving ACT. This study is conducted mostly with older Veterans; therefore, results may not generalize to women and younger adults who are underrepresented in this veteran population.
conclusionsThe results of this study will provide the first evidence from a large-scale, patient- and assessor-blind controlled trial on the effectiveness of a brief behavioral intervention for the prevention of persistent post-surgical pain and dysfunction.
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