REACH Participant Diversity Program

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Abstract

Project Summary The UCSF Core Center for Patient-centric Mechanistic Phenotyping in Chronic Low Back Pain (REACH) is a U-19 Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Mechanistic Research Center (MRC), funded by the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative. As an MRC, REACH is focused on discovery of chronic low back pain (cLBP) mechanisms, generating data for deep phenotyping, and developing algorithms that allow targeting of therapies to individual patients. REACH is led by Jeffrey Lotz, PhD, the David S. Bradford M.D. Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF, and Vice Chair of Research within the Department, and Conor O'Neill, MD, Director of the Department's Non-Operative Spine Program. Other REACH investigators include collaborators at UC Davis, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. The UCSF Core Center for Patient-centric Mechanistic Phenotyping in Chronic Low Back Pain (REACH) is a U- 19 Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Mechanistic Research Center (MRC), funded by HEAL. As an MRC, REACH is focused on discovery of cLBP mechanisms and phenotypes, which will ultimately lead to precision medicine for cLBP. REACH is conducting two longitudinal cohort studies, comeBack and BackHome. In both studies, data elements from psychological, biological, and social domains are measured. BackHome is a site-less, digital study that does not require an in-person visit. All data is collected from patient surveys (i.e., light phenotyping). In comeBack, light phenotyping is augmented by a number of deep phenotyping measures that require an in-person visit (e.g., MRI, physical function testing, quantitative sensory testing, blood draw). The duration of each study is two years. The target enrollment for comeBack is 400 subjects, and for BackHome 5000 subjects. Enrollment from UCSF will be supplemented by collaborators at three other University of California locations (Davis, Irvine, and San Diego). In addition to comeBACK and BackHome, REACH will be participating in the BACPAC Collaborative Clinical Study (CCS), which is scheduled to start enrolling subjects from a number of sites across the US in February of 2022. The CCS will utilize a sequential, multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design to identify phenotypes associated with response to cLBP treatments. It is vital that cLBP study participants reflect the diversity of the United States population. To date, however, minorities have been under-represented in back pain study enrollment. The objective of our proposal is to optimize diversity and inclusion in REACH cLBP studies.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10399813
Project number
3U19AR076737-01S2
Recipient
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Principal Investigator
Yulin Hswen
Activity code
U19
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2021
Award amount
$605,502
Award type
3
Project period
2019-09-25 → 2024-05-31