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Focusing psychosocial interventions in chronic somatic disease - new tasks and strategies for conducting psychosomatic treatment studies

Edited by Prof Hans-Christian Deter
BioPsychoSocial Medicine

This series in BioPsychoSocial Medicine presents an overview of different mechanisms, and symptoms, that will benefit from the new and different psychosocial interventions that are currently being developed and used. There is a need to give different answers to the various questions that are currently being asked in the field of psychosomatic and behavioral medicine. The targets of these interventions are limiting progression to the disease state, symptom reduction, and improving the quality of life. In addition to the importance of RCT´s, we need many phase 2 studies that show both the effectiveness and efficacy of psychosocial intervention.

The editor declares no competing interests.

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  1. Patients with chronic pain are found with highly variable clinical presentation and differing physical complaints. They are seen as a heterogenic group. Based on clinical observations, elderly patients seem to...

    Authors: Bernd Bergander, Laurence Erdur, Bettina Kallenbach-Dermutz and Hans-Christian Deter
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2013 7:4
  2. Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychosomatic disease with somatic complications in the long-term course and a high mortality rate. Somatic comorbidities independent of anorexia nervosa have rarely been studied, ...

    Authors: Laurence Erdur, Bettina Kallenbach-Dermutz, Vicky Lehmann, Frank Zimmermann-Viehoff, Werner Köpp, Cora Weber and Hans-Christian Deter
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:4
  3. The long-term success of life-style interventions in the treatment of obesity is limited. Although psychological factors have been suggested to modify therapeutic effects, specifically the implications of atta...

    Authors: Sybille Kiesewetter, Andrea Köpsel, Knut Mai, Andrea Stroux, Thomas Bobbert, Joachim Spranger, Werner Köpp, Hans-Christian Deter and Bettina Kallenbach-Dermutz
    Citation: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 2012 6:3