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Role of Family in Promoting Illness, Treatment of Pain and Well Behavior

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The interaction between pain patients and their family members can be described via a systems theory model for chronic pain, where family members can encourage or discourage pain behaviors through operant conditioning. Family-centered interventions for chronic pain can result in improved treatment outcomes, although essential characteristics of interventions are not clear.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Matt Fischer & Alaa Abd-Elsayed

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Ehren Nelson

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    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Fischer, M., Nelson, E., Abd-Elsayed, A. (2019). Role of Family in Promoting Illness, Treatment of Pain and Well Behavior. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_92

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