Initial Mailout Response
psychotic disorder, pain, TBI, PTSD, chronic pain
CHRONIC PAIN, RECRUITMENT
A prestudy data extraction from the VA CDW yielded 32,170 veterans with a diagnosis of both chronic pain and PTSD. Prospective veterans (n=1733, 5.4%) responded to recruitment mailers. Of these veterans, 1369 (4.3%) veterans were either ineligible or uninterested in study participation. Primary reasons for ineligibility included inability to contact or uninterested (n=863, 2.7%), no partner (n=310, 1%), unable to perform study tasks (n=81, 0.3%), psychotic disorder or cognitive difficulty (n=32, 0.1%), no pain or PTSD diagnosis (n=29, 0.09%), positive moderate-to-severe TBI screen (n=27, 0.08%), and veteran deceased (n=27, 0.08%). In total, 364 (1.1%) veteran-partner dyads consented for this study. A flow diagram of the veteran-dyad recruitment is presented in 