[Re-education and new education. Evaluation of a training program for occupational health services' personnel aimed for employees with chronic musculoskeletal pain].
Chronic musculoskeletal pain can be perceived as resulting from lack of control and coping in relation to both internal and external demands. Persons with chronic musculoskeletal pain are repetitive users of the occupational and primary health care services, and it seems that traditional medical treatment and physiotherapy are of little help. Health personnel may gain from learning teaching and counselling methods that might enable them to deal with the complexity of the patient's pain. 23 occupational personnel from different professions we invited to participate in a 150 hour training programme based on experience- and process-oriented teaching and counselling methods. After the training programme the participants counselled groups of employees with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Four left the programme after the first workshop. The remaining group felt more competent in meeting persons with chronic pain. When, in stead of giving traditional advice, they used counselling methods and focused on interaction and communication, and on helping the person in pain to find her/his own solutions, they also experienced a change of role in their relationship with these persons.
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Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet, Oslo.
Haugli
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Laerum
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D002908:Chronic Disease; D003142:Communication; D004496:Education, Continuing; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D009664:Norway; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000193:education*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D012380:Role; D000078329:Workforce