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An outpatient treatment programme for pain control was applied in 25 chronic pain patients in three general medical practices, supervised by a medical psychologist as a group therapist. The patients has been suffering from headaches, migraines, cervical pain, shoulder and arm pain, and low back pain for at least 6 months. A sample of 20 patients with the same disorders served as a control group which waiting for treatment. ⋯ Nonetheless, all the subjects treated showed improvements in their average scores for trait anxiety, depression and symptoms complaints compared with the untreated controls. Our results indicate a long-term improvement in well-being as a result of the treatment. Treatment adherence seems to be the most important factor in the maintenance of long-term reduction of pain intensity.
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Tursky's pain perception profile [16] has been revised and adapted for use in German-speaking conditions, and this new modification is presented. It integrates six different methods of clinical and experimental methods of clinical and experimental pain measurement, which are intended to meet the enhanced demands put forward in pain research for multivariate measurement of pain by a variety of methods. ⋯ The results document the many aspects of chronic pain and the necessity for multimodal measurement. In addition, they supply a means of achieving a better pain-related classification of pain patients on an experimental basis.