Chronic headache patients' health behavior and health service use 12 months after interdisciplinary treatment - what do they keep in their daily routines?

ABSTRACT:

Background

We do not yet know whether or the extent to which multimodal therapy changes the health behaviors and health service use of chronic headache patients in the long term. Associations are expected between pain symptoms and pain management abilities for patients who are categorized as successfully treated and those who remain unchanged.

Methods

Routine longitudinal data of an enrolment period of five years from 101 headache patients treated with a two-week, full-day, semi-inpatient multimodal pain therapy at the Interdisciplinary Pain Center of the University Clinic Erlangen were available when therapy began and 12 months after treatment. To investigate long-term changes in health behavior and health service use as well as their associations with the outcome "reductio

SUBMITTER: Donath C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9022266 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature