Mental Health Services in Pain Clinics Provide Significant Clinical Benefits to Patients with Chronic Pain
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
Analyzing their registry of 15,000 chronic pain patients with PROMIS-based patient-reported outcomes, the researchers investigated the impact of seeing a pain psychologist on chronic pain care compared to a matched group who did not see a pain psychologist.
Key Points:
- Analyzing their registry of 15,000 chronic pain patients with PROMIS-based patient-reported outcomes, the researchers investigated the impact of seeing a pain psychologist on chronic pain care compared to a matched group who did not see a pain psychologist.
- Those patients included in the study had at least three pain clinic and three mental health visits.
- Randomized trials have definitively shown that mental health treatment is clearly beneficial in chronic pain therapy.
- However, the positive effects of additional mental health services are truly additive to multimodal pain treatment outcomes."