Table 6:
Baseline characteristics examined: hypothesized (●) moderators and nonspecific predictors of 8-week improvement in functional limitations (mRDQ), pain bothersomeness, and depressive symptoms (PHQ-8); effects with P < 0.05 but not statistically significant after Bonferroni correction (X) and statistically significant after Bonferroni correction (B).
| Moderators | Nonspecific Predictors | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CBT – UC | MBSR - UC | CBT - MBSR | ||||||||||
| Baseline characteristic | mRDQ | Pain Bothersomeness | PHQ-8 | mRDQ | Pain Bothersomeness | PHQ-8 | mRDQ | Pain Bothersomeness | PHQ-8 | mRDQ | Pain Bothersomeness | PHQ-8 |
| Age | X | |||||||||||
| Gender (female vs male) | X | X | ||||||||||
| Education (bachelor’s degree vs less education) | ● | ● X | ● | |||||||||
| Depressive symptoms, moderate-severe (PHQ-8 ≥10) | ● | ● | ● X | ● | ● | ● X | ● | ● | ● | |||
| Depressive symptoms, mild or more severe (PHQ-8 ≥5) | ● | ● | ●X | ● | ● X | ● | ● | ● X | ● | |||
| Pain bothersomeness | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Functional limitations (mRDQ) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Widespread pain | ● | ● | ● X | |||||||||
| Expected pain improvement | ● | ● | ● | |||||||||
| Expected program helpfulness | ||||||||||||
| Anxiety (GAD-2) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | B | ||
| SOPA Disability | ||||||||||||
| SOPA Harm | X | |||||||||||
| SOPA Control | X | X | B | |||||||||
| SOPA Emotion | ||||||||||||
| Pain self-efficacy (PSEQ) | X | X | ||||||||||
| Pain catastrophizing (PCS) | X | |||||||||||
| Pain acceptance (CPAQ-8) | ||||||||||||
| FFMQ-SF OB | ||||||||||||
| FFMQ-SF AA | X | |||||||||||
| FFMQ-SF NR | ||||||||||||
| FFMQ-SF NJ | B | X | X | |||||||||
| Opioid use, past wk (vs no use) | ||||||||||||
AA, Acting with Awareness; CBT, cognitive-behavioral therapy; CPAQ-8, Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire-8; FFMQ-SF, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire-short form; GAD, Generalized Anxiety Disorder; MBSR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction; NJ, Nonjudging; NR, Nonreactivity; OB, Observing; PCS, Pain Catastrophizing Scale; PHQ, Patient Health Questionnaire; PSEQ, Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire; mRDQ, modified Roland Disability Questionnaire; SOPA, Survey of Pain Attitudes; UC, Usual Care
● Hypothesized moderator or nonspecific predictor
X Effect with P < 0.05
B Effect that is statistically significant after Bonferroni correction.