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

Table 2 The second part of the construction of the dependent variable: the accuracy of patient expectations (too low expectations, accurate expectations and too high expectations).(N = 469)

	Goal was not achieved				Goal was achieved				Results were better than goal
	Pain increased	Pain is stable	Pain decreased	Pain has gone	Pain increased	Pain is stable	Pain decreased	Pain has gone	Pain increased	Pain is stable	Pain decreased	Pain has gone
Patient expected more	29^b	54^b	12^b	0	0	23^c	52^c	1^c	0	0	23^c	0
Patient expectations matched results	6^a	11^a	13^a	0	0	22^b	51^b	1^b	0	0	24^c	0
Patient expected less	0	8^a	8^a	0	0	4^a	79^a	5^a	0	0	42^b	1^b

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