Recruiting

My AI Companion

Sponsor:

Companion IQ, Inc

Code:

NCT07776600

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

My AI Companion

Study Details

Brief summary:

Chronic pain is a prevalent and debilitating condition among Veterans, often accompanied by depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances, and social isolation. Despite the availability of behavioral interventions many Veterans-particularly those with high in-person healthcare utilization-face barriers to accessing non-pharmacological pain management strategies. These barriers include limited clinician availability, geographic constraints, and digital exclusion among older or underserved populations.

This study aims to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of My AI Companion, an automated, text/telephone-delivered chatbot designed to support chronic pain self-management among high-utilizing Veterans. The intervention offers a low-barrier approach to promoting symptom tracking, patient activation, and engagement in coping strategies-without requiring Internet access or clinician time.

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Study ID

NCT07776600

Start date

Aug 1, 2026

Status verified date

Aug, 2026

Completion date

Aug, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug 1, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:Participants must meet all of the following eligibility criteria to be enrolled in the study:

  • Be a Veteran receiving care at the VA Augusta Health Care System Pain Medicine Service.
  • Be aged 18 or older.
  • Have a documented diagnosis of chronic pain (defined as pain persisting longer than 3 months).
  • Be classified as a high utilizer of VA in-person outpatient services, defined as having 4 or more in-person primary care, behavioral health, or pain-related visits within the past 6 months.
  • Be English-speaking.
  • Have access to a telephone (landline or cell phone).
  • Have capacity to provide informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Individuals will be excluded from the study if they:

  • Have moderate to severe cognitive impairment that would interfere with the ability to engage with a text/telephone-based chatbot (as determined through medical record review or clinical judgment).
  • Have active psychosis or acute psychiatric instability (e.g., recent psychiatric hospitalization in the past month) that would impair study participation.
  • Are enrolled in another conflicting behavioral intervention study.
  • Are non-English speaking, due to the current availability of the chatbot only in English.

Study Design

Enrollment

200 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Non randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: My AI Companion

Interventions

My AI Companion

My AI Companion is an automated, text/telephone-delivered chatbot designed to support chronic pain self-management among high-utilizing Veterans.

Primary outcome measure

  • Acceptability [ Time Frame: baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months ]
  • Feasibility of Engagement [ Time Frame: baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Henrik Scheel

650 804-5000henrik@companioniq.org

Locations

VA Augusta Health Care System

Recruiting

Augusta, Georgia, United States, 30904

Contacts

Lisa Parker, MD

(706) 733-0188lisa.parker1@va.gov

Raji Ponnala

Rajeshwari.Ponnala@va.gov

More Information

Sponsor

Companion IQ, Inc

Last update posted

Aug 20, 2026

Last verified

Aug, 2026

Keywords

  • Pain

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Companion IQ, Inc on 2026-08-20.