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The effect of psychotherapy program for musculoskeletal chronic pain patients

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, NEC
Registration Number
KCT0008389
Lead Sponsor
Seoul Graduate School of Counseling Psychology
Brief Summary

The results revealed that the intervention group was superior to waitlist control group with regard to primary outcome measure of gratitude, pain acceptance, disability, pain catastrophization, and pain anxiety, reflecting statistically and clinically significant differences, with gains maintained at a month posttreatment test. However, pain severity decreased at posttreatment test, but the effect was not maintained at follow-up. The comparison group was superior to waitlist control group with regard to primary outcome measure of disability, pain catastrophization, reflecting statistically and clinically significant differences, with gains maintained at a month posttreatment test. However, there were no statistically significant differences in pain acceptance, pain severity. Pain anxiety decreased at posttreatment test, but the effect was not maintained at follow-up. In conclusion, mindfulness-based gratitude program not only contributes to reducing disability and pain catastrophizing like pain neuroscience education, but also increases pain acceptance and reduces pain anxiety.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
54
Inclusion Criteria

The criteria for selecting participants are musculoskeletal pain patients aged 19 or older who have been suffering for more than 3 months and are maintaining medical treatment for pain management, and the pain over the past month is 2 points or more, which is more than mild pain on the number rating scale (1-10 points).

Exclusion Criteria

Patients with cancer pain are excluded from this study. In addition, those who are receiving or have received psychological treatment related to chronic pain, and those who lack language expression to the extent that it is difficult to familiarize themselves with the contents of the program will be excluded.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional Study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Korean Gratitude Questionnaire-6;Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-?;Korean version of Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire;Korean version of Pain Catastrophizing Scale;Korean version of Chronic Pain Anxiety Symptom
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Korean Brief Pain Inventory
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