@article{272fd435fb184f7da0cbad486d601827,
title = "Stakeholder engagement in pragmatic clinical trials: Emphasizing relationships to improve pain management delivery and outcomes",
abstract = "Background. The NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC) supports 11 pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) on nonpharmacological approaches to management of pain and co-occurring conditions in U.S. military and veteran health organizations. The Stakeholder Engagement Work Group is supported by a separately funded Coordinating Center and was formed with the goal of developing respectful and productive partnerships that will maximize the ability to generate trustworthy, internally valid findings directly relevant to veterans and military service members with pain, front-line primary care clinicians and health care teams, and health system leaders. The Stakeholder Engagement Work Group provides a forum to promote success of the PCTs in which principal investigators and/or their designees discuss various stakeholder engagement strategies, address challenges, and share experiences. Herein, we communicate features of meaningful stakeholder engagement in the design and implementation of pain management pragmatic trials, across the PMC. Design. Our collective experiences suggest that an optimal stakeholder-engaged research project involves understanding the following: i) Who are research stakeholders in PMC trials? ii) How do investigators ensure that stakeholders represent the interests of a study's target treatment population, including individuals from underrepresented groups?, and iii) How can sustained stakeholder relationships help overcome implementation challenges over the course of a PCT? Summary. Our experiences outline the role of stakeholders in pain research and may inform future pragmatic trial researchers regarding methods to engage stakeholders effectively.",
keywords = "Complementary therapies, Military health services, Pain management, Pragmatic clinical trials, Stakeholder participation, Veterans health services",
author = "{the NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory} and Bastian, {Lori A.} and Cohen, {Steven P.} and Lily Katsovich and Becker, {William C.} and Brummett, {Bradley R.} and Burgess, {Diana J.} and Crunkhorn, {Andrea E.} and Denneson, {Lauren M.} and Frank, {Joseph W.} and Christine Goertz and Brian Ilfeld and Kanzler, {Kathryn E.} and Akshaya Krishnaswamy and Kathryn LaChappelle and Steve Martino and Kristin Mattocks and McGeary, {Cindy A.} and Reznik, {Thomas E.} and Rhon, {Daniel I.} and Salsbury, {Stacie A.} and Seal, {Karen H.} and Semiatin, {Alicia M.} and Shin, {Marlena H.} and Simon, {Corey B.} and Teyhen, {Deydre S.} and Kara Zamora and Kerns, {Robert D.}",
note = "Funding Information: Funding Sources: Research reported in this publication was partially supported by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Numbers U24AT009769, R34AT008427, UG3/UH3AT00970, UG3/UH3AT009767, UG3/UH3AT009761, UG3/ UH3 AT009763, UG3/UH3AT009765, UG3/UH3AT009758; the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIH) UG3AR077360; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs endorsed by the Department of Defense, through the Pain Management Collaboratory - Pragmatic Clinical Trials Demonstration Projects under Award Numbers W81XWH182008, W81XWH1820009, W81XWH1820003, HU00011520003, W81XWH1820007, W81XWH1820008, W81XWH1820009; and the HSR&D Award Numbers PRIME Center CIN 13-047, SDR-17-306, SDR-2015-I01RX001319 from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service. Funding Information: Supplement sponsorship: This article appears as part of the supplement entitled “NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC)”. This supplement was made possible by Grant Number U24 AT009769 from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NCCIH, OBSSR, and the National Institutes of Health. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. This work is written by US Government employees and is in",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1093/PM/PNAA333",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "21",
pages = "S13--S20",
journal = "Pain Medicine",
issn = "1526-2375",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
}