Sustainability of Improvements in Adaptive Coping Following Mind-Body and Activity Training for Chronic Pain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The strategies patients use to cope with chronic pain are key determinants of pain-related treatment outcomes and are often targeted in psychosocial interventions for chronic pain. However, improvements in coping often fade after intervention completion. Here, we test whether previously reported improvements in coping following two novel mind-body and activity interventions are maintained 3 months after completion.

Methods

Eighty-two patients with heterogeneous chronic pain were randomized to two identical mind-body and activity interventions, one with the addition of a Fitbit device (GetActive-Fitbit) and one without it (GetActive; n = 41 each). Participants completed measures of pain-catastrophizing, kinesiophobia, mindfulness, adaptive coping, and pain-resilien

SUBMITTER: Greenberg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8410887 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature