Journal of occupational rehabilitation
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Early psychologically informed interventions for workers at risk for pain-related disability: does matching treatment to profile improve outcome?
This randomized controlled trial had two main aims. The first aim was to investigate the effect of early preventive, psychologically informed, interventions for pain-related disability. The second aim was explore whether people who are matched to an intervention specifically targeting their psychological risk profile had better outcomes than people who were not matched to interventions. ⋯ Early, preventive interventions have an impact on a number of outcome variables but it is difficult to realize a matching procedure. More in-depth research of the process of matching is needed.