The 2021 Action Plan for Pain from the Canadian Pain Task Force advocates for patient-centred pain care at all levels of healthcare across provinces. Shared decision-making is the crux of patient-centred care. Implementing the action plan will require innovative shared decision-making interventions, specifically following the disruption of chronic pain care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first step in this endeavour is to assess current decisional needs (ie, decisions most important to them) of Canadians with chronic pain across their care pathways.

Grounded in patient-oriented research approaches, the authors will perform an online population-based survey across the ten Canadian provinces. They will report methods and data following the CROSS reporting guidelines.

The authors will perform descriptive statistical analysis. They will identify factors associated with clinically significant decisional conflict and decision regret using multivariate analyses.

Results will be disseminated via peer-reviewed journals and national and international conferences to inform the development of innovative shared decision-making interventions for Canadians with chronic pain.