• Katrin Zimmermann, Stephanie Dannemann, Katja Prate, Anne Keller, Nathalie Blaue, Kerstin Weidner, and Uwe Ettrich.
• Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum C. G. Carus, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307, Dresden, Deutschland. katrin.zimmermann@uniklinikum-dresden.de.
• Schmerz. 2024 Jun 1; 38 (3): 190197190-197.

BackgroundApart from rehabilitation research, there have been no studies regarding the expectations of patients with chronic back pain in terms of inpatient multimodal pain therapy. The aim of this naturalistic longitudinal study is to explore treatment expectations, their fulfilment, and influence on the treatment success of inpatient multimodal pain therapy.MethodsThis study included 118 patients with chronic back pain who were physically examined and assessed for their psychological comorbidity. They were interviewed pre and post pain therapy. Treatment expectations were recorded via the questionnaire for assessing rehabilitational expectations and motivations (FREM-17), and further variables via the Pain Disability Index (PDI, german version) and the german Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D).ResultsThe results show that treatment expectations have an impact on therapy success or failure. In particular, patients' expectations of coping with illness and recovery could be met by inpatient multimodal pain therapy, whereas health and pension-related expectations remained unfulfilled. In addition to the treatment expectations, the therapy result was primarily determined by the patient's ability to perform before the therapy.ConclusionsFrom the clinical side, treatment expectations should be explored and checked for feasibility to avoid patient disappointment.© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature.

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