Download or read book Predicting Treatment Outcomes Among Low Back Pain Patients Using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form written by Anthony Michael Tarescavage and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the current study was to investigate the reliability, concurrent validity, and criterion validity of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (Ben-Porath & Tellegen, 2008/2011) scores in a sample of 811 chronic low back pain patients (346 males, 529 females) beginning treatment in a short-term interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program. We calculated internal consistency coefficients, mean-item correlations, and standard errors of measurement for all substantive scales, as well as zero-order correlations with collateral medical record information and self-report testing. For criterion validity analyses, we examined associations with emotional distress and pain disability outcomes. Results indicated reliability and validity for most of the MMPI-2-RF substantive scales. Descriptive analyses across diagnostic groups indicated that the MMPI-2-RF Restructured Clinical Scales had substantially improved discriminant validity when compared to the MMPI-2 Clinical Scales. Higher scale scores from all the MMPI-2-RF substantive domains were associated with worse emotional distress outcomes, with measures of negative emotionality demonstrating the strongest associations with poorer post-treatment functioning. Consistent with the bio-psychosocial model of pain, higher scores on scales from the Emotional/Internalizing, Thought Dysfunction, and Interpersonal domains were associated with worse pain disability outcomes. Implications of these findings and limitations of this study are discussed.