This research project focused on existential distress (death anxiety, existential isolation, true-self incongruence, inauthenticity, low self-concept clarity, and limited future time perspective) among individuals with chronic pain, PTSD, and co-occurring chronic pain and PTSD.
Targeted Condition: Pain
The role of identity among individuals with chronic pain
This research project focused on the role of identity and death anxiety in pain-related cognitions and disability.
Evaluating the role of virtual whole health in PC-MHI
The COVID-19 pandemic facilitated simultaneous paradigm shifts in healthcare delivery: virtual care (telehealth and videoconferencing) and the need for “Whole Person” healthcare that targets mind, body, and spirit, per recent US Surgeon General1 and National Academy of Medicine2 calls-to-action. The pandemic also highlighted treatment delivery inequities involving rural Veterans. The current proposal will address these trends, assessing virtual VA Whole Health care use in Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) for rural and non-rural Veterans with chronic pain and co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
