• Pain Med · Jun 2023

    Young Adult Pain Rehabilitation: Interdisciplinary development and preliminary outcomes of a novel treatment program.

    • Eleshia J Morrison, Michele S Tsai-Owens, Connie A Luedtke, Andrea L Eickhoff, Michele M Evans, Laurel A Oetjen, Amanda L Johannsen, Cindy J Schiebel, Kirsti K Boyum, Andrea L Reynolds, Emily R Dresher, Andrea M Ellingson, Tracy E Harrison, Daniel E Rohe, Wesley P Gilliam, Larissa L Loukianova, and Cynthia Harbeck-Weber.
    • Department of Psychiatry and Psychology.
    • Pain Med. 2023 Jun 1; 24 (6): 593601593-601.

    BackgroundYoung adults with chronic pain and symptoms experience disruptions to their social, emotional, physical, and vocational functioning. Interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation programs for pediatric and adult populations are not designed specifically to address the developmental needs of young adults.MethodsThis article describes the development of a novel intensive interdisciplinary outpatient rehabilitation program tailored to the unique needs of young adults with chronic pain and symptoms. Tailored content included vocational assessment and consultation, financial literacy education, and sexual health education.ResultsOutcome data demonstrate treatment gains, with reductions in pain interference, pain severity, pain catastrophizing, and depressive symptoms, as well as improvements in mental and physical quality of life, perceived performance, perceived satisfaction with performance, and objective measures of physical functioning.ConclusionsThe article concludes with clinical recommendations for the management of chronic pain and symptoms in young adults, applicable across multiple treatment settings.© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

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