Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The cognitive behavioral therapy causes an improvement in quality of life in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Chronic pain causes functional incapacity and compromises an individual's affective, social, and economic life. ⋯ The CBT was effective and it has caused an improvement in more domains of quality of life when compared to the Control Group, after ten weeks of treatment.