Objective:

To evaluate the effectiveness of a psychological intervention program to promote active coping in patients with chronic back pain.

Material and method:

It is a research of technological development that starts from the methodology established for the design and evaluation of programs. A quasi-experimental design of comparison of groups, pre-test and post-test with study and control group was carried out. The study was conducted at the Hospital "Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima" from the province of Cienfuegos, Cuba, from July to November 2020. Intentional, non-probabilistic casual sampling or at the convenience of volunteer participants was used, the sample being made up of 60 patients. The variables studied were coping strategies, self-care, emotional disturbances and functional disability. The statistical analysis of the information was carried out in the statistical package SPSS. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used for related samples and the Mann-Whitney test to compare independent samples between groups (differences between the Study Group and the Control Group after the intervention). An error α of type 1 = 0.05 is established. For this, the null hypothesis was used.

Results:

The results allow us to affirm that the indicators most favored by the intervention program were coping strategies, self-care and functional disability, while emotional disturbances decreased less frequently.

Conclusions:

The implemented psychological intervention program proved to be effective in promoting active coping in patients with chronic back pain, as it was able to promote the use of active strategies, stimulate self-care of health, reduce emotional disturbances and favor recovery functional capacity of the patient in the different spheres of daily life.

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