Trial reportInternational journal of behavioral medicine2018
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression and Anxiety in an Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Program for Chronic Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial with a 3-Year Follow-up.
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- A systematic review of cognitive behavioral therapy-based interventions for comorbid chronic pain and clinically relevant psychological distress.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions for Depressive Symptoms in People Living with Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2022Pooled it
- Characterization of Tiered Psychological Distress Phenotypes in an Orthopaedic Sports Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- On the rising potential of interdisciplinary rehabilitation in neurological disorders: A mini-review.Medicine · 2025Review
- A Single-Session Process-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention Combined with Multimodal Rehabilitation Treatment for Chronic Pain Associated with Emotional Disorders.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Pattern of Cumulative Treatment Hours on Pain Impact and PROMIS Outcomes.Military medicine · 2023Observational
- The association between emotion malleability beliefs and severe psychological distress stratified by sex, age, and presence of any psychiatric disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The effect of cognitive behavior therapy on anxiety and depression during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of general psychiatry · 2022Article
- [Effectiveness of inpatient interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy (IMPT) in patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) : A retrospective study].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2022Article
- Pain Rehabilitation's Effect on People in Chronic Pain: A Prospective Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- The Psychological Experience and Intervention in Post-Acute COVID-19 Inpatients.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2021Article
- Breaking the vicious circle: Experiences of people in chronic pain on the pain rehabilitation journey.Nursing open · 2020Article
- Depression: a common comorbidity in women with rheumatoid arthritis-results from an Austrian cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2020Article
- The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Depression, Anxiety, and Stress in Patients With COVID-19: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Self-Efficacy and the Role of Non-Pharmacologic Treatment Strategies to Improve Pain and Affect in Arthritis.Current treatment options in rheumatology · 2019Article
- PROMIS Physical and Emotional Health Scores Are Worse in Musculoskeletal Patients Presenting to Physiatrists than to Other Orthopedic Specialists.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeCognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is known to be effective for treating depression and anxiety in patients with chronic pain, but there is limited research studying the long-term benefits of CBT in this population. The present study evaluated the effects of CBT provided in the context of an interdisciplinary pain management program with a 3-year follow-up.
methodsOne hundred fifteen patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain participated in an interdisciplinary pain management program. Eighty of these patients meeting criteria for CBT treatment were randomized to receive or not receive CBT for depression and anxiety in addition to rehabilitation pain management. The remaining 35 patients constituted a second comparison group. Follow-up data were collected 1 and 3 years post-treatment with 19% of the patients dropping out after 1 year and 34% after 3 years. Attrition analysis did not indicate that there was significant attrition bias in the data.
resultsAll three groups evidenced improved depression following treatment (p < 0.001). The pre- to post-treatment effect sizes (Cohen's d) for depression in the CBT treatment group was large (ES = 1.36). The CBT treatment group maintained improvements on all measures at a 3-year follow-up, while the comparison groups did not. This was especially evident with respect to depression (pre-treatment to 3 years follow-up ES = 1.35 and between-group ES = 0.57). Before treatment, 36% of all the patients reported that they were able to work. At 3 years post-treatment, 59%, 58%, and 44% of the patients were working who were in the CBT treatment group, the Comparison group, and the Non-CBT group, respectively.
conclusionThe results indicate that providing CBT for depression and anxiety as part of a rehabilitation pain management program may enhance the long-term benefits of treatment. This finding, if replicated in additional studies, has important clinical and economic implications.
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