[A German Survey of Goal Setting and Goal Agreement in Medical Rehabilitation].

Aim: To describe the current practice of goal setting and goal agreement in the Medical rehabilitation in Germany.

Methodology: Rehabilitation centers contracted by the German Pension Insurance and covering all indications were approached by a questionnaire survey.

Results: The percentage of questionnaires returned was 48.

[Collaborative Goal Setting in Rehabilitation (ParZivar II): Evaluation of an Intervention in Patients with Chronic Back Pain].

Objective: The "ParZivar II" project had 2 aims: optimization of the "ParZivar I" intervention by individual coaching of physicians, and evaluation of the optimized intervention.

Methods: The intervention was evaluated in a sequential control group design in 4 rehabilitation facilities with 3 measurement points. A total of n=279 patients with chronic low back pain participated in the study.

[Evaluation of a collaborative goal setting intervention in patients with chronic back pain].

Background And Objective: Although setting rehabilitation goals is considered to be a core rehabilitation process, in actual rehabilitation practice there is a considerable need for improvement with respect to consistent goal orientation. The objective of the PARZIVAR project was therefore to develop an intervention for participative goal setting in medical rehabilitation. This article reports the results of the evaluation of the PARZIVAR intervention in patients with chronic back pain.

[DGRW-Update: musculo-skeletal diseases].

Background: Orthopedic rehabilitation is a major entity in rehabilitation. Due to coming demographic changes and its challenges concerning mobility of elderly patients it will increase. The criticism on orthopedic rehabilitation in Germany focuses on its missing evidence in therapeutic eff ectiveness especially in chronic low back pain.

[Goal setting in inpatient medical rehabilitation: exploring the current practice].

Objective: Goal setting is regarded as a key element in the rehabilitation process. Information about current goal setting practice is limited. However, there is potential for further improvement, e.

[Patient-doctor interaction in rehabilitation: is there a relationship between perceived interaction quality and long term treatment results?].

Objectives: A body of evidence suggests that good interaction is crucial for high-quality medical practice and that it has a considerable impact on treatment outcomes. Less is known about the role and significance of doctor-patient interaction in rehabilitation. The study's aim was to capture perceived quality of doctor-patient interaction in rehabilitation by a rating instrument (P.

[A comparison of multimodal programmes of patient education in the rehabilitation of chronic low back pain].

There is growing evidence for the effectiveness of multimodal intervention concepts for chronic low back pain in the international literature, and accordingly several German rehabilitation programmes for the treatment of chronic low back pain patients have been developed. Focus of this paper is to describe and compare frequently used German multimodal intervention programmes for in- and outpatient rehabilitation of patients with chronic low back pain. Programmes were chosen by searching the most relevant online resources as well as the online pages of Deutsche Rentenversicherung and Zentrum Patientenschulung during September 2008.

Patient-doctor interaction in rehabilitation: the relationship between perceived interaction quality and long-term treatment results.

Objectives: A body of evidence suggests that good interaction is crucial for high-quality medical practice and has a considerable impact on treatment outcomes. Less is known about the role and significance of doctor-patient interaction in rehabilitation. The study aim was to capture perceived quality of doctor-patient interaction in rehabilitation by a rating instrument (P.

[Long-term efficiency of orthopedic rehabilitation in chronic back pain--the integrative orthopedic psychosomatic concept (IopKo)].

Unlabelled: Chronic diseases of the musculoskeletal system rank first as causes of early retirement in Germany. Therefore orthopaedic rehabilitation has to identify patients with work-related problems and to promote return to work through differential treatment and vocational counselling. In the framework of the IopKo-Project such measures were developed and evaluated.

[Multidisciplinary orthopedic rehabilitation program in patients with chronic back pain and need for changing job situation -- long-term effects of a multimodal, multidisciplinary program with activation and job development].

Background: According to a recent review by Hüppe and Raspe effects of multidisciplinary treatment programs for patients with chronic low back pain in Germany seem to be rather weak and not to have persisting effects. Factors which could counteract possible benefits of treatment are, among others, psychic and job-related stresses and strains persisting after treatment. A multidisciplinary, in-patient treatment program for patients with chronic low back pain, therefore, was amended by multidisciplinary diagnosis and assignment and measures to support vocational solutions.

[Effect of goal setting on information processing in letter comparison tasks].

In two laboratory experiments (N1 = 84, N2 = 20) the impact of goal setting on information processing (perception) in letter-matching tasks was examined. It was expected that setting difficult goals for reaction times improves performance because identification and especially semantic classification of letters should be speeded up under goal-setting instructions. Three findings can be emphasized.