Courtney H Van Houtven, Valerie A Smith, Katherine E M Miller, Theodore S Z Berkowitz, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Tyler Hein, Lauren S Penney, Kelli D Allen, Margaret Kabat, Timothy Jobin, S Nicole Hastings
Disabled Veterans commonly experience pain. The Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) provides training, a stipend, and services to family caregivers of eligible Veterans to support their caregiving role. We compared ascertainment of veteran pain and pain treatment through health care encounters and medications (pain indicators) of participants (treated group) and non-participants (comparison group) using inverse probability treatment weights. Modeled results show that the proportion of Veterans with a pain indicator in the first year post-application was higher than that pre-application for both groups...
December 7, 2023: Medical Care Research and Review: MCRR