Increasing the treatment motivation of patients with somatic symptom disorder: applying the URICA-S scale
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Increasing the treatment motivation of patients with somatic symptom disorder: applying the URICA-S scale
BACKGROUND Therapeutic intervention programs for somatic symptom disorder (SSD) show only small-to-moderate effect sizes. These effects are partly explained by the motivational problems of SSD patients. Hence, fostering treatment motivation could increase treatment success. One central aspect in SSD patients might be damage to motivation because of symptomatic relapses. Consequently, the aim of...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Psychiatry
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1471-244X
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-017-1400-5