Background and aims: 
The Patient Goal Priority Questionnaire (PGPQ) is a clinical tool to support patients’ active involvement in rehabilitation and their identification of self-selected prioritised rehabilitation goals. This is a protocol for a study aiming to evaluate the usefulness of the PGPQ for successful activity performance in self-selected activity-related rehabilitation goals in people participating in pain rehabilitation.
Methods: 
Controlled experimental trial design. Intervention participants: consecutive groups of ten people with persistent pain participating in a 10-week rehabilitation program at a pain specialist clinic. The PGPQ is used at the second session of the program to identify the patient’s prioritised activity-related rehabilitation goals, for mid-program (week 5) collaborative formative evaluation, and for program evaluation at last session (week 10). For each goal, the participants rate their satisfaction with, self-efficacy for and fear of activity performance, readiness to change to improve performance, and expectations of future activity performance. At 5 and 10 weeks, a question is added on changes made to improve activity performance. A historical control group: people who have received the same rehabilitation program, except from the use of PGPQ, at the same pain clinic. Data on patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) regarding pain interference in daily-life activities, pain-related fear, catastrophizing and work ability, will be retrieved from the Swedish Quality Registry for Pain Rehabilitation for comparisons between the intervention and control groups.
Expected results: 
The PGPQ is expected to be favourable for increasing satisfaction with activity performance in both prioritised and other daily-life activities.

THE PATIENT GOAL PRIORITY QUESTIONNAIRE IN PAIN REHABILITATION - STUDY PROTOCOL FOR A CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL