Brief-Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief-IPQ) Used as Prediction of Outcome in Patients With Chronic Non-malignant Pain After Treatment in a Multidisciplinary Pain Clinic

Chronic pain conditions are frequent in the danish population. More than 1.2 million Danes over the age of 16 are living with chronic pain. Chronic pain affects the health-related quality of life and functioning and is associated with reduced work ability, lost earnings and disability. At the Interdisciplinary Pain Center Zealand University Hospital Koege, Denmark, patients with chronic pain are received and treated based on the Bio-Psycho-Social Pain Model. The treatment of patients with complex chronic non-malignant pain can be complicated by psychological and / or social factors. The need for a screening of psychological factors in connection with the examination and planning of the pain management in the Interdisciplinary Pain Center is obvious as the patient's perception of illness and expectation of treatment have been shown to play a role in the treatment response. The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (Brief-IPQ) provides a quick assessment of the patient's disease perception and expectation of treatment and has proved useful in clinical practice. In this study, a Danish version of Brief-IPQ is used, which initially was taken from https://www.uib.no. Items as stated in research by L. van Oort et al (2011) have been adapted to the Danish version. A copy of the latest version can be obtained from Interdisciplinary Pain Center Zealand University Hospital Koege, Denmark.

The study:

Participants:

Patients with chronic low back pain admitted to the Pain Centre after June 2021 at ZUHK.

• Persons ≥18 years
• Persons who suffers from chronic back pain and are admitted to the Pain Centre at Zealand University Hospital in Køge, Denmark
• Persons who have completed the BIPQ both at first and at last visit in the Pain Centre