An online self-management program for people with chronic back pain can lead to improvements in stress, coping, and social support, and produce clinically significant differences in pain, depression, anxiety, and global rates of improvement.

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This study shows normal distribution of verbal pain response to a clinical pain stimulus in a clinical population. Body movement and anxiety correlated with verbal pain intensity ratings. Subcutaneous injections of lidocaine may be a useful model for exploration of pain sensitivity in a clinical population.

Objective-Self-management of pain is a critical component of arthritis care; however, limited mobility can restrict access to resources. Although the Internet has become a primary source of health information, few studies address what patients want and need from a self-management website.Methods-Thirty-two people diagnosed with arthritis and 12 practitioners a) participated in individual one hour interviews and b) sorted and rated a list of 88 unique statements that were derived from the interviews. Qualitative data were analyzed using Concept Mapping procedures.Results-The six cluster map provided the best discrimination between statements. Follow up analyses suggested that although patients with arthritis and practitioners generally agree on the categories of content on a self-management website about arthritis, they appear to disagree on the importance of each category.Conclusions-These findings about patient and provider desired content and features can be used by health educators to develop curriculum for health education of patients with arthritis pain.