Redesign of Everyday Activities and Lifestyle With Occupational Therapy for Chronic Pain Patients

The participants are recruited from the outpatient cohort admitted at The Multidisciplinary Pain Center (MPC) at Naestved Hospital (Zealand Region, Denmark). The participants receive both, the current treatment based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and delivered by physicians, nurses, physical therapists and a social worker as usual care, and a lifestyle-oriented Occupational Therapy intervention. The Occupational Therapy intervention targets meaningful daily occupations, physical activity, and eating habits and routines. The intervention is delivered by graduated occupational therapists once á week during the 15 weeks after the initial 5-weeks compulsory psychoeducation course at the MPC. The intervention contains in-person contacts with OTs every other week (e.g. two 1-hour individual sessions at the hospital and/ or at-home and five 2-hours group sessions) and seven phone consultations in the opposite weeks.