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Table 1.
Description of treatment
CBT patients
MDT patients
Not on
sick leave
On sick
leave
Not on
sick leave
On sick
leave
Treatment period, days
Mean
(standard error)
151
(99)
155
(102)
194
(216)
144
(130)
Median
128
129
122
105
Number of visits
Mean
(standard error)
9
(4)
10
(4)
22
(11)
22
(9)
Median
9
9
18
20
Treatment category, percent
Physician
1
1
17
15
Nurse
1
2
3
3
Physiotherapist
3
2
51
55
Occupational therapist
0
1
8
11
Chiropractor
0
0
7
3
Social worker
15
18
5
4
Psychologist
57
55
7
7
Psychotherapist
16
15
1
1
Other
8
8
1
1
Type of treatment, percent
Systematic psychological treatment, cognitive
31
31
0
0
Systematic psychological treatment,
cognitive-behavioral therapy
59
57
0
0
Group treatment from manual method
3
3
1
1
Team rehabilitation
0
0
29
38
Rehabilitation according to rehabilitation plan 2
3
59
50
Other
6
6
11
11
Observations
42,294
10,207
18,363
9,021
Source: Skåne county council care database.
Table 1presents descriptive statistics of the treatments for the participants
included in the analysis. For CBT, the median treatment period was almost
130 days and the median number of visits during this period was 9. Almost
60 percent of the sessions were handled by a psychologist, 15 percent by a
social worker and 16 percent by a psychotherapist. For MDT, the median
treatment period was shorter than for CBT, at 122 or 105 days depending
on sick leave status. However, the treatment was much more intense than
the CBT, with a median of almost 20 visits during a treatment sequence.
About half of these sessions were handled by a physiotherapist, about 15
percent by a physician and about 10 percent by an occupational therapist.