3. Comprehensive team-based care
- Date: Thursday, September 19, 2019
- Concurrent Session A
- Time: 2:30pm-3:15pm
- Room: Pier 4
- Style: Presentation (information provided to audience, with opportunity for audience to ask question)
- Focus: Balance between both (e.g. Presentation of a best-practice guideline that combines research evidence, policy issues and practical steps for implementation)
- Target Audience: Clinical providers
Learning Objectives
There is significant evidence supporting an interdisciplinary approach to chronic pain management. The Guelph FHT Chronic Pain Management Team will share the successes and challenges through its development and implementation of the program by:
- Identifying the components of a self-management program to support patients living with non-cancer chronic pain.
- Providing knowledge translation opportunity related to the Acceptance Commitment Therapy based group education workshops and individual clinical support promoting personal resilience and effective pain management.
In this effort, one can take this information to help direct the development/opportunity in other Family Health Teams.
Summary/Abstract
The Guelph FHT has developed an interdisciplinary self-management program to support patients with non-cancer chronic pain. Established in 2015, the program has progressed in an effort to facilitate evidence-based practice and establish quality outcome measures. We offer individual appointments from our Registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist, and Kinesiologist, as well as facilitated group education sessions by a Mental Health Counsellor. Our program has been created as a ‘resilience tools gathering encounter’ for the chronic pain population, by educating on the concepts of neuroplasticity, pacing, mindfulness, and action planning to promote re-engagement in meaningful activity. The Acceptance Commitment Therapy Matrix is a fundamental component of our program, as it guides participants to focus on what they want their life to be about going forward. Group education is an essential component of our program. Not only are participants able to increase their knowledge and self-efficacy of their own pain journey, we have seen a reduction in catastrophic thoughts, and improvement of quality of life. The group environment reduces social isolation, and boosts their confidence to know that they are doing okay and can continue to make progress. We are suggesting that increasing a person’s beliefs that they have the capability to cope despite pain needs to be a priority in pain management. By the end of this presentation, you will have received an overview of our program structure, the tools we use to support our patients to manage their chronic pain, and the outcomes of our program that demonstrate improved quality of life.
Presenter
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Alicia Atkinson, Clinic Coordinator of Chronic Pain Program, Guelph Family Health Team
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Chung-Ying Chou, Mental Health Counsellor with Chronic Pain Program, Guelph Family Health Team
Authors/Contributors
- Shawna Druif, OT with Chronic Pain Program, Guelph FHT
- Matthew Mendes, RKin with Chronic Pain Program, Guelph FHT