Randomized controlled evaluation of the psychophysiological effects of social support stress management in healthy women.

Considering the high and increasing prevalence of stress, approaches to mitigate stress-related biological processes become a matter of public health. Since supportive social interactions contribute substantially to mental and physical health, we set out to develop a social support stress management intervention and examined its effects on psychophysiological stress responses as well as self-reported stress in healthy women. In a parallel-group randomized controlled trial, registered in the DSRK (DRKS00017427), 53 healthy women were randomly assigned to a social support stress management or a waitlist control condition.

[Guideline for the planning of personalized, interdisciplinary multimodal pain treatment].

Interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy (IMPT) should be delivered in a personalized, mechanism- and goal-oriented manner on the basis of an individual case conception. To the authors' knowledge, a practical instrument for planning IMPT does not exist. The model and guideline presented here for treatment should help practitioners to optimize the planning of IMPT and execute it efficiently.