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Chronic Pain, Patient-Therapist Interaction

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Relationship; Therapeutic Alliance

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Patient-therapist interaction refers to the verbal and nonverbal interactions between healthcare providers and their patients or clients. These interactions may include, but are not necessarily limited to, communication and negotiations concerning the patient’s history, diagnosis, and clinical care.

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Patient-Therapist Interaction and Pain Treatment Satisfaction

Research shows that pain intensity has only a weak to moderate association with pain treatment satisfaction, due primarily to the fact that patients tend to report relatively high levels of satisfaction with pain management care, regardless of pain severity levels (Miaskowski et al. 1994; Ward and Gordon 1996; Dawson et al. 2002). On the other hand, factors related to the interactions between patients and clinicians show consistent associations with treatment satisfaction across measures and samples. For example, Sherwood and colleagues (Sherwood et al. 2000)...

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Mark P. Jensen

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  1. Physiological Institute, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Robert F. Schmidt

  2. Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

    William D. Willis

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Jensen, M. (2007). Chronic Pain, Patient-Therapist Interaction. In: Schmidt, R., Willis, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29805-2_702

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