Dr. Hadlandsmyth researches the impact of chronic symptoms on quality of life, mood, and functioning across life domains. With her team, she conducts mixed-methods needs assessments using qualitative interviews, survey data collection, and administrative data analyses. She then uses these findings to design and trial behavioral interventions.

Dr. Hadlandsmyth particularly seeks to improve the lives of persons living with chronic pain. She studies non-pharmacological pain self-management interventions among subsets of patients with unique needs, such as rural-dwelling individuals, women Veterans, surgical patients, and those with comorbid conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Her work has been supported since 2017, including by the VA and NIH. Recent work has included:

• Tailoring Behavioral Interventions for Rural Populations with chronic pain. This includes serving as MPI for the embedded pragmatic trial of a multimodal telehealth intervention for rural Veterans with chronic pain (the RAMP study: Rural Veterans: Applying Mind Body Skills for Pain: https://rethinkingclinicaltrials.org/demonstration-projects/ramp/)
• Tailoring interventions for women Veterans with chronic pain, including design and pilot of a multicomponent behavioral pain self-management intervention designed specifically for rural-dwelling women Veterans with chronic pain.

In future work, Dr. Hadlandsmyth plans to collaboratively investigate the impact of chronic pain on managing other comorbid chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes.

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