Publications of Interest
Confronting Racism in All Forms of Pain Research: A Shared Commitment for Engagement, Diversity, and Dissemination
The third paper in the three-part series on addressing racism in pain research, the authors advocate for a shared commitment toward an antiracism framework in pain research. They identify community partnerships, diversification of research environments, and changes to dissemination practices.
Confronting Racism in All Forms of Pain Research: Reframing Study Designs
This second paper in a 3-part series on antiracism in pain research across the translational spectrum focuses on study design factors.
Confronting Racism in Pain Research: A Call to Action
Part one of these three-part series on addressing racism in pain research offers historical and theoretical background, as well as proposed shifts in language and practices in pain research frameworks, to promote the incorporation of antiracism research practices.
Strategy for addressing research-site overlap in pragmatic clinical trials
An early challenge was to ensure that PMC researchers across the 11 national, large-scale pain trials did not co-enroll participants in multiple, concurrent pain trials. Learn about the strategies developed to address this challenge.
Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pragmatic clinical trial participants
This article reports on the development of a brief questionnaire to measure persons’ experience of the impact of COVID-19 on their health and well-being.
Adapting to Disruption of Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the PMC adapted its research as needed to continue its progress in advancing research on nonpharmacological pain management during this unprecedented disruption in research, healthcare, and everyday routines that affect how people live with pain.
