A scale for rating the quality of psychological trials for pain

Yates, Shona; Morley, Stephen; Eccleston, Christopher; Williams, Amanda C de C

doi:10.1016/j.pain.2005.06.018

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“…We could meet and report on most of the requirements for efficacy studies [15] by concurrently guarantying high generalisability of the results as demanded for effectiveness studies. We provided convincing external validity, as our participants Values are expressed as absolute numbers (%).…”

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Two Psychological Interventions Are Effective in Severely Disabled, Chronic Back Pain Patients: A Randomised Controlled Trial

2009

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Background Many pain patients appreciate biofeedback interventions because of the integration of psychological and physiological aspects. Therefore we wanted to investigate in a sample of chronic back pain patients whether biofeedback ingredients lead to improved outcome of psychological interventions. Method One hundred and twenty-eight chronic back pain patients were randomly assigned to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), cognitive-behavioural therapy including biofeedback tools (CBT-B) or waitlist control (WLC). The sample was recruited from a highly disabled group including many patients with low education status and former back surgeries. Measures on pain, physical functioning, emotional functioning, coping strategies and health care utilisation were taken at pretreatment, posttreatment and 6 months of follow-up. Results The results indicated significant improvements on most outcome measures for CBT-B and CBT in comparison to WLC. CBT-B and CBT were equally effective (e.g. ITT effect sizes for pain intensity: CBT-B, 0.66 (95% CI 0.39-0.95); CBT, 0.60 (95% CI 0.33-0.87)). Conclusion In conclusion, biofeedback ingredients did not lead to improved outcome of a psychological intervention. Cognitive-behavioural treatment as a "package" of respondent, operant and cognitive interventions was effective for ameliorating pain-related symptoms for chronic back pain patients treated in an outpatient setting. The high treatment acceptability associated with biofeedback ingredients can also be achieved with pure psychological interventions.

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“…The study was conducted following CONSORT guidelines and guidelines for rating the quality of psychological trials for pain published by Yates et al [15].…”

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Two Psychological Interventions Are Effective in Severely Disabled, Chronic Back Pain Patients: A Randomised Controlled Trial

2009

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“…This included fields for describing the ECHO and all items from the quality rating scale developed by Yates et al (2005). 16 The Yates Quality Rating Scale (YQRS) has been developed to assess the quality of RCTs of psychological trials for chronic pain. Studies were not excluded based on quality.…”

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Does mindfulness improve outcomes in patients with chronic pain? Systematic review and meta-analysis

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“…There is also evidence that more recently designed trials are of better quality. Scales for assessing design quality of complex interventions that cannot be double blind 31 indicate an improvement in controlling various biases, such as blinding of assessors, better randomization, better data analysis protocols, and equivalence of treatment expectations.…”

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New Developments in the Psychological Management of Chronic Pain

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2015

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After reviewing how psychological treatment for chronic pain comes to have its current form, and summarizing treatment effectiveness, we explore several areas of development. We describe third wave therapies, such as mindfulness; we discuss what the research literature aggregated can tell us about what trials are more useful to conduct; and we outline some areas of promise and some failures to deliver on promise. The article is drawn together using the framework of the normal psychology of pain, identifying some of its most important implications for improving life for people with chronic pain. W W W Nouveaux développements de la prise en charge psychologique de la douleur chroniqueAprès avoir étudié comment le traitement psychologique de la douleur chronique en est venu à sa forme actuelle, et résumé l'efficacité des traitements, nous explorons plusieurs domaines du développement. Nous décrivons les thérapies de troisième vague comme la pleine conscience, nous discutons de ce que peut nous apprendre la littérature de recherche regroupée à propos des essais les plus utiles à mener, nous présentons des domaines prometteurs et d'autres qui n'ont pas tenu leur promesse. La structure de l'article est le cadre de la psychologie normale de la douleur, qui identifie certaines des implications les plus importantes pour améliorer la vie des personnes souffrant de douleur chronique. P sychological treatments for chronic pain have been in continuous development since the 1960s, broadly parallel to changes in mainstream psychological treatments, especially within the ambit of CBT. There are several conceptual threads that can be discerned in the current state. 1 BehaviouralBehavioural methods apply operant learning theory to the analysis of pain. The primary objective is to modify a range of pain-related behaviours, such as activity, medication use, and social interactions, by changing environmental contingencies and the settings in which pain-related behaviour occurs. The cardinal feature of the original behavioural approach was that it explicitly eschewed direct attempts to modify the sensory-intensity component of the pain experience. 2

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A scale for rating the quality of psychological trials for pain

Cited by 139 publications

References 32 publications

Two Psychological Interventions Are Effective in Severely Disabled, Chronic Back Pain Patients: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Two Psychological Interventions Are Effective in Severely Disabled, Chronic Back Pain Patients: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Does mindfulness improve outcomes in patients with chronic pain? Systematic review and meta-analysis

New Developments in the Psychological Management of Chronic Pain

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