The effects of a novel psychological attribution and emotional awareness and expression therapy for chronic musculoskeletal pain: A preliminary, uncontrolled trial

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 81, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-8

  Burger, Amanda J ^a   Lumley, Mark A ^a   Carty, Jennifer N ^a   Latsch, Deborah V ^a   Thakur, Elyse R ^a   Hyde Nolan, Maren E ^a   Hijazi, Alaa M ^a   Schubiner, Howard ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b St John Providence Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution; Registered at Clinicaltrials.gov (NCT00861302)

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STUDY; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FOLLOW UP; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84959064269     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: 18791360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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