Long-term pain and health economic outcomes in adults receiving multidisciplinary CBT for chronic pain: the role of psychological inflexibility

The present findings add to a small body of literature indicating that the improvements in pain and related difficulties following multidisciplinary, pain-focused, CBT programs persist at least three years following treatment, and these are accompanied by modest improvements in health economic outcomes over the same interval. Psychological <i>in</i>flexibility seems to be predominately associated with long-term clinical outcomes in pain management, and it also appears relevant to the number of health care visits.