The primary aim is to establish key features for a randomized clinical trial of the advanced pain self-management support intervention in a clinical context. The
specific aims are threefold: 1) to test the feasibility of the
study and intervention procedures; 2) to establish effect
sizes of main outcome variables (e.g. reduce pain intensity, reduce the number of patients with pain as the main
symptom, increase patient satisfaction with pain management) for subsequent power calculation; 3) to explore
participants’ experiences with pain self-management
support and their view of burden and benefit from study
participation in a qualitative substudy.