Ruckenschulen - Back Schools 12+

📘 Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Klinische u. Gesundheitspsychologie, Psychopathologie, Note: 1,1, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Institut für Psychologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In industrialized countries chronic pain, especially chronic back pain, has become a frequent prob-lem with high rates of morbidity which in turn has various medical and social-econiomcal effects. Intensive research during the last decades has brought a shift from a somatic determined accep-tance of disease and disorders to a more psychological perspective. Therefore research in chronic low back pain can be regarded as a challenge not only for medical but for diverse scientifc disciplines. A widely used form of intervention is the back school, which is practised successfully for more than 20 years in Western Europe and North America. At the Innsbruck University State Hospital a back school program (interdisciplinary group therapy IGT) was started with 42 chronic low back pain patients aged between 27 and 70 years; the study is still in progress. A descriptive metaanaly-sis (narrative review) of 29 back schools which are based on the Swedish back school is used as a comparison to the Innsbruck version of a psychological pain therapy.ZusammenfassungChronischer Schmerz - darunter besonders der chronische Rückenschmerz - gehört zu jenen Störungen, die in den industrialisierten Ländern eine der höchsten Morbiditätsraten aufweisen. Die intensive Forschung der letzt...