PainACTION-Back Pain: A self-management website for people with chronic back pain

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1044-1058

  Chiauzzi, Emil ^a   Pujol, Lynette A ^b   Wood, Mollie ^a   Bond, Kathleen ^a   Black, Ryan ^a   Yiu, Elizabeth ^c   Zacharoff, Kevin ^a  

^a INFLEXXION INC   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Back Pain; Cognitive Behavior Therapy; Psychosocial; Self Management; Tailored; Website

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL STRESS MANAGEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BACK PAIN; HUMANS; INTERNET; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955150536     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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