Who Benefits the Most From Different Psychological Chronic Pain Treatments? An Exploratory Analysis of Treatment Moderators

Copyright © 2023 United States Association for the Study of Pain, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved..

Different psychological chronic pain treatments benefit some individuals more than others. Understanding the factors that are associated with treatment response-especially when those factors differ between treatments-may inform more effective patient-treatment matching. This study aimed to identify variables that moderate treatment response to 4 psychological pain interventions in a sample of adults with low back pain or chronic pain associated with multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, acquired amputation, or muscular dystrophy (N = 173). The current study presents the results from secondary exploratory analyses using data from a randomized controlled clinical trial which compared the effects of 4 sessions of cognitive therapy (CT), hypnosis focused on pain reduction (HYP), hypnosis focused on changing pain-related cognitions and beliefs (HYP-CT), and a pain education control condition (ED). The analyses tested the effects of 7 potential treatment moderators. Measures of primary (pain intensity) and secondary (pain interference, depression severity) outcome domains were administered before and after the pain treatments, and potential moderators (catastrophizing, hypnotizability, and electroencephalogram (EEG)-assessed oscillation power across five bandwidths) were assessed at pre-treatment. Moderator effects were tested fitting regression analyses to pre- to post-treatment changes in the three outcome variables. The study findings, while preliminary, support the premise that pre-treatment measures of hypnotizability and EEG brain activity predict who is more (or less) likely to respond to different psychological pain treatments. If additional research replicates the findings, it may be possible to better match patients to their more individually suitable treatment, ultimately improving pain treatment outcomes. PERSPECTIVE: Pre-treatment measures of hypnotizability and EEG-assessed brain activity predicted who was more (or less) likely to respond to different psychological pain treatments. If these findings are replicated in future studies, they could inform the development of patient-treatment matching algorithms.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

The journal of pain - 24(2023), 11 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 2024-2039

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jensen, Mark P [VerfasserIn]
Ehde, Dawn M [VerfasserIn]
Hakimian, Shahin [VerfasserIn]
Pettet, Mark W [VerfasserIn]
Day, Melissa A [VerfasserIn]
Ciol, Marcia A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chronic pain
Cognitive therapy
Hypnosis
Journal Article
Low back pain
Moderators
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

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Date Completed 30.10.2023

Date Revised 01.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jpain.2023.06.011

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM358545552