Psychological correlates of chronic pain and treatment adherence

A systematic review found pain self-efficacy to be most reliably implicated in treatment adherence outcomes. A cross-sectional study highlighted the importance of pain self-efficacy, fear-avoidance and perceived disability for pain and affective disorder symptoms. A longitudinal study showed depression, fear-avoidance (post-treatment) and anxiety (pre-to-post intervention) to predict adherence behaviour.