Silent Battles: Exploring the Diverse Experiences of Canadian Veterans Living with Chronic Pain – Seeking Participants

Chronic pain affects Canadian veterans more often and more severely than the general population, and this has a major impact on their quality of life. This research project explores the unique challenges Canadian Veterans face in living with chronic pain, focusing on how different groups of Veterans experience it. The study pays particular attention to equity-seeking groups, including women, Indigenous people, individuals with disabilities, and ethnic and sexual minorities, to understand how their different identities affect their pain and how they manage it.

The study is funded by the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veteran and conducted in partnership with the Quebec Veterans Foundation.

Project Progress

We are asking you to take part in this research project because you are a Veteran living with chronic pain. If you are consenting to participate voluntarily in this research initiative, your involvement will include your commitment to complete an online questionnaire of about 30–45 minutes.

Offset Allowance

You will receive $25 compensation if you participate in the survey by completing the questionnaire, if you are one of the first 250 people randomly selected and/or $30 if you do the individual interview. This amount compensates for your time and efforts involved.

Eligibility criteria:

• Be a veteran, as defined by Veterans Affairs Canada (“Any former member of the Canadian Armed Forces who successfully underwent basic training and is honourably discharged”).

• Living with pain that persists beyond 3 to 6 months or recurs over months and years.

Supervision (contact):

Please contact the research team to receive your participation link by email at combatsilencieux-silentbattles.ciussscn@ssss.gouv.qc.ca.

If you have any further questions about your participation or want more information, please do not hesitate to contact the principal investigator, Pr Amédé Gogovor, by e-mail at

amede.gogovor@fmed.ulaval.ca or by telephone at 418-663-5313, ext.