Personality does not predict treatment preference, treatment experience does: A study of four complementary pain treatments

Forschende Komplementarmedizin

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 274-280

  Blasche, G ^a,b   Melchart, H ^a   Leitner, D ^a   Marktl, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Complementary alternative medicine; Personality; Treatment evaluation; Treatment experience; Treatment preference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; AUSTRIA; BALNEOTHERAPY; BATH; BODY MASS; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELAXATION TRAINING; SELF CONTROL; SEX RATIO; SPA TREATMENT;

EID: 35848965231     PISSN: 16614119     EISSN: 16614127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000108010     Document Type: Article

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