Developing a Tailored Psychosocial Education Intervention for Chronic Pain Management for Asian Americans

"Participants will get ten 60-minute psychoeducational group sessions about chronic pain and its management. The group sessions will be conducted by the PI and a bilingual project director at Korean churches or daycare centers in Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan area.~The psychoeducational group session will be adapted from LAMP intervention that has been previously developed. The intervention provides biopsychosocial education sessions about chronic pain and its management. For example, sessions focus on providing information regarding: (1) pain and the biological stress response and the gate control theory of pain, (2) the psychological impact of thoughts and emotions on pain and (3) facilitated group discussions to help participants develop a new understanding of pain through shared social experiences, all of which have been shown to improve pain outcomes."