[ effect of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on improving the multidimensional pain symptoms of the patients with chronic low back pain; a 4 months follow up]

ABSTRACT

Psychosocial factors has key role in continuation and maintenance of low back pain. The research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy on improving the Multidimensional Pain Symptoms of the patients with chronic low back pain. In an double-blind randomly clinical trial including pre-test, post-test, follow-up and control group, Thirty-five Patients with diagnosis of Low Back Pain compliance randomly selected in clinical centers of one, two and three regions of Tehran and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. All participants completed the Multidimensional Pain Inventory [MPI] and demographical questionnaire in three phases of pre-test, post-test and follow-up. Cognitive-behavioral group therapy carried out on the two groups in 8 sessions once weekly. Analysis of variance with repeated measures showed that cognitive-behavioral group therapy significantly reduced mean scores of the multidimensional pain symptoms for the experimental groups as compared to the control group [P<0.05]. According to the findings of this study, cognitive-behavioral group therapy is effective method in decreasing multidimensional pain symptoms in patients with chronic low back pain