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Intensive interdisciplinary chronic pain treatment programs have demonstrated that pain acceptance predicts positive treatment outcomes, but limited research has focused on less-intensive programs. This study aimed to examine associations between changes in pain acceptance and pain interference among youth participating in an outpatient interdisciplinary chronic pain treatment program.Youth presenting to an evaluation within an interdisciplinary outpatient pediatric chronic pain program completed questionnaires at initial program evaluation (T1) and three months later (T2).Youth (Pain acceptance increased significantly from T1 to T2 (Pain acceptance and interference improved after three months in an outpatient chronic pain treatment program. Improvements in acceptance were strongly related to reductions in interference. Future research should examine these relationships over longer periods, in larger samples. |
