Recruiting

SCOOP

Sponsor:

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Code:

NCT06671925

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 60+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Strengthening COnnections to Overcome Pain (SCOOP)

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical trial is to test a new community health worker-delivered program (Strengthening COnnections to Overcome Pain, or SCOOP) that teaches strategies for managing chronic pain and loneliness to older adults living in rural areas. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Does participating in SCOOP result in less pain interference with daily life?
2. Does participating in SCOOP result in decreased loneliness?
3. What is the level of participant engagement in SCOOP? Researchers will compare people who have participated in SCOOP with people who have not participated in SCOOP to see if SCOOP is helpful in decreasing pain interference and loneliness.

Participants will:

1. Watch brief videos teaching strategies to manage pain and boost social connections.
2. Engage in up to 7 weekly coaching sessions with a community health worker.
3. Complete two telephone interviews about health, mental health, and functioning: one at baseline, and one 2 months later.

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Study ID

NCT06671925

Start date

Jan 27, 2026

Status verified date

Mar, 2026

Completion date

May 31, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

May 31, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 60+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age >= 60 years;
  • Have a mobile or landline phone;
  • Self-reported chronic musculoskeletal pain (pain in muscles or joints for >= 3 months, >=4 (0-10 scale) average pain level over last week, >=1 day/previous 30 when pain made it difficult to do usual activities);
  • Self-reported loneliness (Feeling lonely "some of the time" or more often);
  • Able to converse comfortably in English.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Serious acute illness or hospitalization in the last month;
  • Planned major surgery in the next three months that would interfere with program participation (e.g., knee or hip replacement);
  • Severe cognitive impairment or other severe physical or psychiatric disorder judged by study team to pose a significant barrier to participation.

Study Design

Enrollment

80 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: SCOOP Intervention Group

SCOOP is a 7-week intervention, delivered primarily over the telephone by community health workers, to support chronic pain self-management and social connectedness.

no intervention: Control group

Control group participants receive usual care between the baseline and 8-week follow-up survey. After completing the follow-up survey, control participants will be invited to take part in an educational workshop about pain and loneliness and will receive all intervention materials.

Interventions

Strengthening COnnections to Overcome Pain (SCOOP)

Each week for 7 weeks, SCOOP intervention group participants will watch a brief video on the study website teaching a pain management or social connectedness skill and have a session with a community health worker, where they will receive support with behavioral goal-setting related to pain management and/or social connections. Participants will be screened for unmet social needs and connected to appropriate resources.

Primary outcome measure

  • Engagement as measured by number of sessions completed [ Time Frame: 8 weeks from baseline ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Mary R. Janevic, PhD

734-647-3194mjanevic@umich.edu

Rebecca Lindsay, MPH

734-763-6369reblin@umich.edu

Locations

University of Michigan

Recruiting

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109

Contacts

Rebecca Lindsay, MPH

734-763-6369reblin@umich.edu

Principal Investigator:

Mary Janevic, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Last update posted

Aug 5, 2026

Last verified

Mar, 2026

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Weill Medical College of Cornell University on 2026-08-05.