Table 1 Features of the two interventions
Motivational interviewing based pre-treatment (MIP) | Pain education (Usual care (UC)) | Â |
|---|---|---|
Goal: explore participant’s life situation, impairments and ambivalences in order to enhance intrinsic motivation | Goal: provide the participant with information | Goal |
General principles of MI | General principles of health education and patient education | Basic principle |
Content based on patient-driven topics derived from the ICF-model | Content based on the book ‘De pijn de baas’ [42] (Mastering pain) | Foundation |
Content sessions tailored to the patients’ readiness to change | Content is fixed by means of the treatment protocol | Protocol rigidity |
Exploration actual (life) situation, burden and impairments of the chronic pain in daily life | Provision of general health education about topics related to chronic pain | Content first session |
Assessing + enhancing motivation, self-efficacy, and readiness to change for behavior | Provision of information regarding core elements of pain rehabilitation | |
Giving feedback adapted to the state of readiness-to-change | Continuation of general health education about topics related to chronic pain | Content second session |
Continuation exploration | ||
Continuation assessing + enhancing motivation, self-efficacy, and readiness to change for behavior | ||
Is given related to the stage of change of the participant according to the MI-principles | Is not given | Feedback |