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The long-term lasting effectiveness on self-efficacy, attribution style, expression of emotions and quality of life of a body awareness program for chronic a-specific psychosomatic symptoms

Landsman-Dijkstra, Jeanet J.A., van Wijck, Ruud, Groothoff, Johan W.·2006·Patient Education and Counseling
DOI 10.1016/j.pec.2004.12.003
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Objective A 3-day residential body awareness program (BAP) was developed to teach people with chronic a-specific psychosomatic symptoms (CAPS) to react adequately to disturbances of the balance between a daily workload and the capacity to deal with it. The long-term effects of the program on body awareness, psychological factors, psychosomatic symptoms and quality of life for people with CAPS are presented in this study.Methods A pre-post design is used with post-measures 2 and 12 months after the program, without controls (n = 122). Mean age is 42.5 (S.D. = 9.0) and 60% is female.Results The results showed an increase of body awareness, self-efficacy, expression of emotions and quality of life. Stress-related symptoms decreased and the attribution style was found to be less depressive. Participants achieved significantly higher levels of functioning at 2 months which increased significantly more at 12 months. The majority of the measured changes can be interpreted as clinically relevant outcomes with medium-to-large effect sizes. Spouses of the participants also confirm the found effects.Discussion and conclusion Evaluation of the BAP gives evidence to conclude that this program leads to the theoretically expected long-term effects in CAPS. Participants react more adequately to disturbances between daily workload and the capacity to deal with this load. Two and 12 months after the 3-day program, they are more capable of self-management in coping with stress and psychosomatic symptoms.Practice implications This article sheds new light on the difficulties that individuals with psychosomatic symptoms and their professional interventionists encounter when attempting to manage the chronicity of the problems. By paying more attention to learning self-management by increasing body awareness and self-efficacy, patient educators may be able to increase their effectiveness.

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Authors
Landsman-Dijkstra, J. J. A., van Wijck, R., & Groothoff, J. W.
Affiliations
University of Groningen (NL)
ORCID
Groothoff, Johan W.
Venue
Patient Education and Counseling
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-01
Volume
60
Issue
1
Pages
66-79
ISSN
0738-3991 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.pec.2004.12.003
OpenAlex
W2047610584
Cited by
44
References
94
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FWCI
0.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Patient Education and Counseling (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (publishedVersion)
  • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, psychology, and well-being
Keywords
self-efficacy, attribution style, emotional expression, quality of life, stress management, self-management, long-term effects, residential intervention, chronicity, depressive symptoms
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Analysis of Variance, Awareness, Chronic Disease, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Netherlands, Psychophysiologic Disorders, Psychotherapy, Quality of Life, Self-Assessment, Self Care, Stress, Psychological, Statistics, Nonparametric, Self Efficacy

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