Recruiting

Digital Psychology Program

Sponsor:

University Health Network, Toronto

Code:

NCT07818980

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Veterans

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Self-Guided Digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Program

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this study is to gather feedback from Canadian Veterans living with chronic pain, and clinicians serving Canadian Veterans, on an existing digital psychology program for self-management of chronic pain delivered through the Manage My Pain app. This feedback will be used to adapt the program for the needs and experiences of Canadian Veterans.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

  • How acceptable, feasible, and engaging is the existing digital psychology program for Canadian Veterans living with chronic pain?
  • What changes are needed to make the program more relevant and appropriate for Canadian Veterans living with chronic pain?

Participants will:

  • Use the self-guided digital psychology program over a two-week period and complete questionnaires about the program's acceptability and feasibility. Veteran participants will also complete questionnaires about their pain and pain history.
  • Take part in a 30- to 45-minute virtual interview to provide feedback about the program and recommendations for its adaptation.

The study does not include a comparison group.

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Veterans

Study ID

NCT07818980

Start date

Sep 14, 2026

Status verified date

Aug, 2026

Completion date

Sep 30, 2027

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Sep, 2027

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria (Veterans):

  • Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces who report having chronic pain (pain for 3 months or longer).
  • Have access to a device that can connect to the Internet.

Inclusion Criteria (Clinicians):

  • Healthcare providers actively practicing in Canada.
  • Healthcare providers delivering evidence-based psychology interventions to Canadian Veterans (e.g., clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, counselors)
  • Have access to a device that can connect to the Internet.

Exclusion Criteria (Veterans):

  • Individuals with a known history of serious mental illness (e.g., psychosis and/or active mania).
  • Individuals who have limited comprehension of English or comprehension deficits due to dementia.
  • Individuals with physical or cognitive impairments that prevent effective engagement with an online intervention (e.g., serious uncorrected visual or hearing impairment).

Exclusion Criteria (Clinicians):

\- Healthcare providers who have limited comprehension of English

Study Design

Enrollment

22 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Canadian Veterans

Adult Canadian Veterans living with chronic pain for at least 3 months. Participants will use the existing self-guided digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy program through the Manage My Pain app over 2 weeks. They will then complete questionnaires assessing program acceptability, and feasibility, pain and pain history, as well as a semi-structured interview about their experiences with the program and recommended adaptations.

Clinicians Serving Canadian Veterans

Canadian healthcare providers experienced in delivering evidence-based pain psychology interventions to Veterans. Participants will use the existing self-guided digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy program through the Manage My Pain app over 2 weeks. They will then complete questionnaires assessing program acceptability and feasibility and participate in a semi-structured interview about recommended adaptations for Canadian Veterans.

Interventions

Self-Guided Digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Program

A self-guided digital psychology program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and delivered through the Manage My Pain app. The program includes interactive psychoeducation about chronic pain and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, recognition of pain-related avoidance, clarification of personal values, identification of meaningful actions, strategies for making room for difficult experiences, and flexible persistence in meaningful activities.

Primary outcome measure

  • Program Usage and Engagement as assessed by Manage My Pain Platform Usage Analytics [ Time Frame: Participants will have their usage analytics tracked from access to the self-guided program to completion of the program, an average of 2 weeks. ]
  • Program Acceptability as assessed by the Treatment Evaluation Inventory-Short Form [ Time Frame: Participants will be sent a link to fill out the measure within 1 week of completing the program. ]
  • Program Feasibility as assessed by the Feasibility Survey [ Time Frame: Participants will be sent a link to fill out the measure within 1 week of completing the program. ]
  • Retrospective Semi-structured Interview [ Time Frame: Participants will be sent an invitation for an interview within 1 week after completing the survey questions. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Hance A Clarke, MD, PhD

416-340-4800hance.clarke@uhn.ca

Peter M Slepian, PhD

maxwell.slepian@uhn.ca

Locations

Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network

Recruiting

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2N2

Contacts

Hance Clarke, MD, PhD

416-340-4800hance.clarke@uhn.ca

Deep Grewal

deep.grewal@uhn.ca

Principal Investigator:

Hance Clarke, MD, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

University Health Network, Toronto

Last update posted

Sep 18, 2026

Last verified

Aug, 2026

Keywords

  • Canadian Veterans
  • Chronic pain
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • ACT
  • Digital health intervention
  • Digital psychology intervention
  • Pain self-management
  • Mobile health
  • eHealth
  • Manage My Pain
  • Co-adaptation
  • Patient engagement
  • Veterans' health
  • Pain psychology
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Mindfulness
  • Internet-based Intervention

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-24. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University Health Network, Toronto on 2026-09-18. Recruitment status is synced daily from ClinicalTrials.gov and may not reflect the sponsor's current status. Confirm during your call.