Grant: Catalyst Grant: Digital Health - Early to Mid-Career Research

The Power over Pain (POP) portal is a web-based, mobile-friendly platform designed to provide virtual treatments and resources based on strong scientific evidence for adults living with chronic pain (CP). The POP portal is offered in both English and French and includes self-management pain interventions, symptom tracking, and peer support. While the interventions on the portal were tested previously with people living with chronic pain and are known to be effective for improving pain-related outcomes, how the POP portal can be best implemented in primary care is unknown. With 1 in 5 Canadians suffering from chronic pain and the difficulties in accessing non-medication related interventions, particularly in primary care, it is important to have information and strategies to guide how POP may best be used by primary care clinicians and patients. Our project will focus on the primary goal of describing the barriers and enablers that prevent or help patients and health providers adopt the POP portal for use in the health care experience, and how feasible and easy it is to sustain the program in primary care settings. We will work together with clinical teams and patients experiencing chronic pain to assess what factors help and prevent the integration of the program and develop strategies that work for each centre.We will also bring together our research team and primary care site clinician and patient partners to share and identify common strategies and issues that are both common and unique to different settings. Knowledge gained from this project will help us find ways to support the use of the POP portal in different primary care centres to support the care of people with chronic pain.