É Possível Viver Apesar Da Dor!... Avaliação Da Eficácia De Um Programa De Intervenção Psicológica Multimodal Em Pacientes Com Dor Crónica

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Araújo-Soares, Vera McIntyre, Teresa
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	The main goal of this research was to evaluate a multimodal and multidisciplinary psychological intervention program in patients with chronic pain. After a comprehensive review of the chronic pain and psychological intervention literature an intervention manual was developed with the goal of testing its efficacy. The program was tested in Orthopaedics, Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Pain Clinic patients of two General Hospitals. The research design is quasi-experimental in nature, the sample consisted of 33 subjects in the experimental condition, and 36 in the control condition (wait-list), with ages between 18 and 72 and participation was voluntary. The initial evaluation of these two groups revealed that they were equivalent at pre-test. The patients of the experimental group were given a psychological intervention in addition to medical care, and the control group had only standard medical care. Thus, the
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	112
Page Count	12
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Volume Number	1
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Language	English
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Resource Type	Article