Table 2.

Focus Group Guide

What difficulties (if any) has your pain caused in your life? Can you share with us some of the challenges you have faced in managing (coping with, dealing with) your pain? What about some of the successes you have had in managing your pain better?

Think of some of the ways or strategies the SCAMP Pain Study taught you to better deal with (manage) your pain?

Which of these strategies did you find particularly helpful to better manage your pain? Why did you find these helpful (relieve pain, improve activity or both)? How did they help?

Which of these strategies did you not find helpful? Why?

What were some of the challenges that you faced in using these strategies to better manage your pain?

Do you think stress or mood problems (such as depression) made using these strategies more difficult?

What are some things that made these strategies easy to use regularly?

Has anyone learned other ways to manage/deal with your pain that we have not discussed today?

Let’s say that this discussion was going to be shared with your doctors with the goal to help them better treat your pain, what would you like to tell them?