FUTUREPAIN: Randomized Controlled Trial to Test an Online Mind-Body Intervention for Chronic Pain
Timothy Brown, Professor
Public Health
Applications for Spring 2025 are closed for this project.
This project will implement and disseminate the FUTUREPAIN validated questionnaire and implement an online intervention for chronic pain focused on the South Asian population. The project will us a phone app to collect data during the project. The project will use a cross-over randomized design.
Role: The undergraduates involved will complete and maintain the FUTUREPAIN website, develop and refine the phone app to collect data, and complete development of a set of online courses to deliver the intervention and collect experimental data, troubleshoot problems during the experimental period, help analyze data, and write papers based on the results. This project will be the basis of a large research grant proposal. Undergraduates will perform the following:
1. Maintain and improve the FUTUREPAIN website, which is the portal into the FUTUREPAIN study.
2. Complete development of the online intervention course
3. Participate in a outreach campaign to invite chronic pain sufferers to participate in the study.
4. File institutional review board protocols
5. Write a paper describing the FUTUREPAIN protocol and analysis plan for publication.
6. Troubleshoot issues once the experiment begins
7. Analyze data and write papers based on the results.
Qualifications: Qualifications:
1. Website design experience, phone app development experience, marketing experience, statistical experience, Qualtrics or other data collection software experience. On-the-job learning is expected, but some experience is needed. Computer science and public health majors preferred, but any major may apply.
2. Hours: 8-10 hours per week (so you could select 6-8 hours or 9-11 hours). This is flexible depending on how many students express interest.
3. This project will run from Spring 2025 through Spring 2027. We expect that not all students will be able to participate for the full time period.
Hours: 9-11 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: All meetings will be on-campus (or done via Zoom) depending on student needs.
Related website: https://www.futurepain.org/
Biological & Health Sciences