[Therapy of Chronic Back Pain Considering Psychosocial Aspects].

Chronic pain and especially back pain rank among the most meaningful medical conditions worldwide. This leads to extensive costs in medical care systems. In about 80-85% of cases there is no morphologic evidence for a possible pain etiology, hence such forms are called "non-specific back pain".

Childhood Adversities and Adult Headache in Poland and Germany.

Objective: Various childhood adversities have been found to be associated with chronic pain in adulthood. However, associations were moderate in most studies, i.e.

Back pain in Poland and Germany: a survey of prevalence and association with demographic characters.

Background: Back pain is the most common form of pain and leads to high costs in all medical care systems.

Objective: The present study examines the prevalence of back pain and its associations with some basic demographics.

Methods: Two samples from Poland and Germany (about n = 500 each) were examined via Internet regarding back pain, gender, age, and body mass index (BMI).

[The symptom checklist SCL-27-plus for patients with eating disorders].

The symptom checklist-27-plus has demonstrated good psychometric properties in various samples, but clinical data have not yet been published. Data from 690 mostly young female patients with eating disorders show reliabilities ranging from acceptable to very good (Cronbachs α between 0.76 und 0.