Feelings of fatigue, annoyance or anger, or hostility predict improvement in pain-related disability following an interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment program for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a longitudinal cohort study

Background Knowledge about predictive factors for treatment response is essential to stratify patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) to the most effective treatment program. Sociodemographic, functional and pain-related factors are well-researched, but less is known about the predictive role of psychological factors.