Table 1.

Pearson Correlations of Patient and Provider Communication with Pain and Function Outcomes

Verbal Exchanges	Pain Rating			Functional Limitation
Verbal Exchanges	First Visit (n = 90)	At 1 Month (n = 80)	At 3 Months (n = 77)	At 1 Month (n = 80)	At 3 Months (n = 77)
Provider
Biomedical/therapeutic questions	0.16	0.41^{^†}	0.27^*	0.31^{^†}	0.35^{^†}
Lifestyle/psychosocial questions	0.03	0.34^{^†}	0.16	0.30^{^†}	0.30^{^†}
Biomedical/therapeutic information	0.17	0.06	0.03	0.08	0.08
Lifestyle/psychosocial information	0.15	−0.08	−0.06	−0.09	−0.02
Facilitation/engagement	0.14	0.50^{^†}	0.43^{^†}	0.40^{^†}	0.46^{^†}
Rapport building
Positive	0.11	0.31^{^†}	0.27^*	0.32^{^†}	0.31^{^†}
Negative	0.19	0.20	0.17	0.21	−0.13
Emotional	0.01	−0.05	−0.06	0.15	0.23^*
Socializing/chit-chat	−0.20	0.00	−0.06	−0.05	−0.03
Procedural language	0.16	0.34^*	0.19	0.15	0.21
Patient
Biomedical/therapeutic questions	0.08	−0.06	−0.01	−0.12	−0.02
Lifestyle/psychosocial questions	0.18	0.06	0.00	0.10	−0.03
Biomedical/therapeutic information	0.02	0.43^{^†}	0.29^{^†}	0.22^*	0.30^{^†}
Lifestyle/psychosocial information	0.00	0.09	0.13	0.13	0.20
Facilitation/engagement	0.01	-0.01	0.05	0.05	0.00
Rapport building
Positive	0.10	0.20	0.19	0.03	0.10
Negative	0.10	0.04	0.23^*	0.17	0.23^*
Emotional	−0.27^*	0.26^*	0.26^*	0.21	0.24^*
Socializing/chit-chat	−0.20	-0.08	−0.11	-0.10	−0.10
Procedural language	0.06	0.25^*	0.25^*	0.02	0.24^*