BACKGROUND: The results of a recently performed RCT (1) showed that the effect of a multidisciplinary treatment of @entity1118 @entity1 on body awareness, catastrophizing and @entity308 was improved by adding psychomotor therapy (PMT), an intervention targeting body awareness (BA). No significant effects were found on quality of life and disability. The present follow-up study aims to explore the relationship between improvements in BA and multidisciplinary @entity1118 rehabilitation treatment outcome across treatment conditions and the possible mediating effect of BA between treatment conditions. Furthermore, the hypothesis that @entity1 with low BA benefit more from PMT was investigated. METHODS: 94 @entity1 with @entity1118 participated in a RCT comparing multidisciplinary treatment as usual (TAU) with TAU plus PMT. Outcome variables were health-related quality of life, disability and @entity308 . Self-efficacy and catastrophizing were the process variables of treatment and the potential mediating factors in the relationship between BA and the outcome variables. The data were analysed by linear mixed model analysis. RESULTS: Improvements in BA were related to improvements in all outcome variables across treatment conditions. The relationships were partly mediated by self-efficacy and/or catastrophizing. In the regression model with @entity308 as the outcome variable the regression coefficient of treatment (i.e. PMT vs. TAU) decreased with 34% and became non-significant when BA was added as a potential mediator. @entity1 with low body awareness seemed to benefit more from PMT than @entity1 with high body awareness, especially on @entity308 , body awareness and catastrophizing. CONCLUSIONS: BA might be an important target of treatment to improve the multidisciplinary treatment outcome in @entity1118 @entity1 . Furthermore, PMT is an intervention that appears to provide its benefits through improving BA and may be especially beneficial for @entity1 with low BA.

Body Awareness as an Important Target in XXXX Treatment: Mediation and Subgroup Analyses.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'Patients'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['depression'] @entity1118 :: ('MESH:D059350', 'Disease') :: ['chronic pain']
@entity1118 :: (MESH:D059350,Disease) :: ['Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain']
