DISCLAIMER

Beyond Pain is a mobile phone application intended for educational purposes only. Users should always discuss their treatment with their healthcare provider. This app is provided on an “As Is” basis. Use of the app is at your own risk.

Purpose

This app will guide you through the process of learning about how chronic pain develops, gather information about your pain, consider possible treatment options, and create a personalized report that you may share with your healthcare providers.

Data collected

This app does not collect personal identifiable health care information. All data collected is anonymous.

Support

This app was developed with funding provided by Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute’s Development Fund (Developing and Testing Technology-driven Shared Decision-Making for Persistent Pain Treatment in the Primary Care Setting, Grant # = HRI0000933).

Project Team

Benjamin Balderson, PhD
Lynn DeBar, PhD
Michael Von Korff, ScD
Eli Lynch, MD
Mark Stephens, BS

Development Team

Mark Stephens – Project Manager & Overall Design
Contact: mark.r.stephens@comcast.net | (425) 970-3170

Deb McCarroll – Graphics Artist
Annie De Armas – Video & Animation
Jonathan Norris – Programming
Gordon Hendrickson – Narrator
Tito Fuentes – Sound Engineer

Citation

Beyond Pain is a collaborative effort amongst the Project Team. This work draws from a vast body of literature including our own research, particularly from the PPACT and MAP projects. To learn more here are some selected citations:

DeBar L, Benes L, Bonifay A, Deyo RA, Elder CR, Keefe FJ, Leo MC, McMullen C, Mayhew M, Owen-Smith A, Smith DH, Trinacty CM, Vollmer WM. Interdisciplinary team-based care for patients with chronic pain on long term opioid treatment in primary care (PPACT) – Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials 2018 67: 91-99 PMID: 29522897

Cherkin DC, Sherman KJ, Balderson BH, Turner JA, Cook AJ, Stoelb B, Herman PM, Deyo RA, Hawkes RJ. Comparison of complementary and alternative medicine with conventional mind-body therapies for chronic back pain: protocol for the Mind-body Approaches to Pain (MAP) randomized controlled trial. Trials 2014; 15:211

Feedback and questions can be sent to benjamin.h.balderson@kp.org

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