Entertaining accurate treatment expectations while suffering from chronic pain: an exploration of treatment expectations and the relationship with patient- provider communication

Table 1 The first part of the construction of the dependent variable: the merger of the responses to the patient reported outcome question and the treatment goals. (N = 585)

	Goal is complete recovery	Goal is decrease in pain	Goal is to stabilise pain
The pain has gone	9^b	1^c	0^c
The pain has (slightly) decreased	36^a	238^b	110^c
The pain is stable	6^a	83^a	61^b
The pain has (slightly) increased	2^a	23^a	16^a

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