The effect of psychotherapy program for musculoskeletal chronic pain patients

INTERVENTION: Behavioral : In this study, the experimental group conducts a program once a week for 6 weeks, 90 minutes for each session, a total of 6 times. Each session consists of subject explanation, education, practical activities, and assignments, and allows participants to conceptually understand key educational contents and apply them in their daily lives. The gratitude program is named self‐gratitude, natural gratitude, reasonable gratitude, and adversity gratitude, and mindfulness is gradually expanded to body movements in the order of eating meditation, body scanning, compassionate meditation, walking mindfulness, and mindful movement. The comparative group applies pain neuroscience education. Pain neuroscience education deals with specific neurophysiology of pain systems, and explains them through images, pictures, illustrations, and metaphors to make them easier for non‐experts to understand. The program consists of a total of si Xsessions once a week and 40 minutes per session. CONDITION: Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, NEC PRIMARY OUTCOME: Acceptance and Action Questionnaire‐? Korean Gratitude Questionnaire‐6 Korean version of Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire Korean version of Chronic Pain Anxiety Symptom Korean version of Pain Catastrophizing Scale SECONDARY OUTCOME: Korean Brief Pain Inventory INCLUSION CRITERIA: The criteria for selecting participants are musculoskeletal pain patients aged 19 or older who have been suffering for more than 3 months and are maintaining medical treatment for pain management, and the pain over the past month is 2 points or more, which is more than mild pain on the number rating scale (1‐10 points).