Long term outcomes of psychosomatic rehabilitation

According to the latest state of research psychosomatic rehabilitation can be considered as effective and efficient. Several program-evaluation studie s document process and outcomes of over 4000 psychosomatic patients in reha bilitation clinics so far. The majority of patients in all studies show pos itive therapy outcomes, which also can be demonstrated in follow-up investi gations. Those positive results cover disease and disorder related aspects as well as cost relevant facets. This paper presents one of those program-e valuation studies which reports the outcomes of a one year and a five year follow-up respectively. It focusses on the outcomes of those subjects which participated in both inquiries. In addition to single criteria the constru ction of a multiple outcome criterion is discussed.