Der Schmerz
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The empirical findings on risk factors for a favorable/unfavorable outcome upraised via pain intensity, disability and functional capacity after empirically well-evaluated multimodal treatment are inconsistent. The objective of this study was to analyze the relevance of psychosocial and pain-related variables for therapeutic outcome in an unselected sample of patients with chronic non-specific back pain (CBP). ⋯ The calculated regressions showed only a moderate ability to predict or explain the outcomes pain intensity, disability and functional capacity. However, depression and body mass index (BMI) were significantly related to pain-related therapeutic outcome.