scholarly journals Corrigendum to “Incorporating Family Function into Chronic Pain Disability: The Role of Catastrophizing”

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Akbari ◽  
Mohsen Dehghani ◽  
Ali Khatibi ◽  
Tine Vervoort
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Family Function ◽  
Pain Disability

scholarly journals Incorporating Family Function into Chronic Pain Disability: The Role of Catastrophizing

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Akbari ◽  
Mohsen Dehghani ◽  
Ali Khatibi ◽  
Tine Vervoort
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Catastrophizing ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Family Context ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Family Function ◽  
Fear Of Movement ◽  
Pain Disability ◽  
The Impact

Background. Observers’ responses to pain are recently investigated to more comprehensively explain chronic pain (CP) and disability. However, the role of family context, defined as interference in roles, communication, and problem-solving, and how (i.e., through which mechanisms) these variables contribute to CP related disability have yet to be examined.Objectives. The aim of the present study is to examine family context in relationship to pain catastrophizing, fear of movement, and depression and its role in understanding CP disability. Three different models were examined.Methods. A total sample of 142 patients with musculoskeletal chronic pain was recruited to examine the role of fear of movement, pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, and depression in relationship to family functioning as predictors of disability.Results. Findings indicated that two models showed acceptable fit, but one of them revealed superior fit indices. Results of the model with superior fit indices indicated that family dysfunction may contribute to catastrophic thinking, which, in turn, contributes to patients’ disability through increasing fear of movement and depression.Discussion. The current study provides further support for the notion that the impact of emotional and cognitive variables upon CP-related disability can be better understood when we consider the social context of pain patients and family function in particular.

scholarly journals Disrupted Sleep Patterns and Daily Functioning in Patients with Chronic Pain

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance M McCracken ◽  
Grant L Iverson
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Sleep Disturbance ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Pain Clinic ◽  
Daily Functioning ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Pain Experience ◽  
Pain Disability ◽  
Disturbed Sleep

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the role of disturbed sleep in the daily functioning of persons with chronic pain.SUBJECTS AND METHODS:Participants comprised 287 patients seeking treatment for chronic pain at a university pain clinic. All patients completed the measures employed in the present study as part of a comprehensive initial evaluation.RESULTS:Descriptive analyses showed that 88.9% of patients reported as least one problem with disturbed sleep. Correlation analyses showed that greater sleep disturbance was associated with greater pain, disability, depression and physical symptoms, and less daily uptime. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that sleep disturbance predicted disability, daily uptime and physical symptoms independent of pain or depression.CONCLUSIONS:Sleep disruption is usually considered to be a consequence of the pain experience. However, the results of the present study reinforce the view that sleep disturbance may have a bidirectional relation with other features of chronic pain. Future studies should confirm that repairing disrupted sleep leads to an improvement in patients' daily activity and a reduction in their suffering.

The role of pain, disability and perceived social support in psychological and academic functioning of university students with pain: an observational study

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danijela Serbic ◽  
Jun Zhao ◽  
Jiafan He
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
University Students ◽  
Acute Pain ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Academic Functioning ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Pain Disability

AbstractObjectivesUniversity students with pain face unique physical, psychological, social and academic challenges, but research on this is limited. The main aim of this study was to examine how pain, disability and perceived social support relate to psychological and academic outcomes in students with pain. It also compared students with pain and students without pain on measures of depression, anxiety and perceived social support.MethodsThree hundred and eleven students enrolled in Chinese universities took part in the study, 198 with pain (102 reported acute pain and 96 chronic pain) and 113 without pain. They completed measures of perceived social support, depression, anxiety, pain (intensity, frequency, duration), disability and pain interference with academic functioning.ResultsStudents with chronic pain reported higher levels of anxiety and depression and lower levels of perceived social support than students without pain. There were no significant differences between students with acute and chronic pain, and between students with acute pain and those without pain. In the pain sample (containing both acute and chronic pain group), greater interference with academic functioning was predicted by higher levels of pain and disability, and disability also predicted higher levels of depression. After controlling for effects of pain and disability, lower levels of perceived social support predicted higher levels of both anxiety and depression.ConclusionsThese results highlight the role of pain and disability in academic functioning and the role of perceived social support in psychological functioning of students with pain.

scholarly journals Attentional Engagement for Pain-Related Information among Individuals with Chronic Pain: The Role of Pain Catastrophizing

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Lee ◽  
S. H. Kim ◽  
S. K. Shin ◽  
A. Wachholtz ◽  
J. H. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Pain Catastrophizing ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Pain Disability ◽  
Attentional Engagement ◽  
Time Course Of Attention

Although the evidence of the attentional bias of chronic pain individuals toward pain-related information is established in the literature, few studies examined the time course of attention toward pain stimuli and the role of pain catastrophizing on attentional engagement toward pain-related information. This study examined the time course of attention to pain-related information and the role of pain catastrophizing on attentional engagement for pain-related information. Participants were fifty young adult participants with chronic pain (35% male, 65% female; M = 21.8 years) who completed self-report questionnaires assessing pain catastrophizing levels (Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS)), depression (the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)), anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)), and pain disability (the Pain Disability Index: (PDI)). Attentional engagements to pain- and anger-related information were measured by the eye tracker. Significant interaction effects were found between (1) time and stimulus type for pain-related information (F (5, 245) = 11.55, p<0.001) and (2) bias scores and pain catastrophizing (F (1, 48) = 6.736, p<0.05). These results indicated that the degree of increase for pain bias scores were significantly greater than anger bias scores as levels of pain catastrophizing increased. Results of the present study provided the evidence for the attentional bias and information processing model which has clinical implications; high levels of pain catastrophizing may impair individuals’ ability to cope with chronic pain by increasing attentional engagement toward pain-related information. The present study can add knowledge to attentional bias and pain research as this study investigated the time course of attention and the role of pain catastrophizing on attentional engagement toward pain-related information for adults with chronic pain conditions.

Role of Ethnicity on Pain Perception, Fatigue, and Quality of Life in a Pediatric Chronic Pain Population

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey I. Gold ◽  
Trina Haselrig ◽  
D. Colette Nicolaou ◽  
Katharine A. Belmont
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Perception ◽  
Pediatric Chronic Pain

Chemo- and Optogenetic Strategies for the Elucidation of Pain Pathways

2019 ◽  
pp. 816-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sascha R. A. Alles ◽  
Anne-Marie Malfait ◽  
Richard J. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Response ◽  
Conscious Perception ◽  
Novel Therapies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nociceptive Pathways ◽  
Pain Pathways ◽  
Technical Advances ◽  
The Brain

Pain is not a simple phenomenon and, beyond its conscious perception, involves circuitry that allows the brain to provide an affective context for nociception, which can influence mood and memory. In the past decade, neurobiological techniques have been developed that allow investigators to elucidate the importance of particular groups of neurons in different aspects of the pain response, something that may have important translational implications for the development of novel therapies. Chemo- and optogenetics represent two of the most important technical advances of recent times for gaining understanding of physiological circuitry underlying complex behaviors. The use of these techniques for teasing out the role of neurons and glia in nociceptive pathways is a rapidly growing area of research. The major findings of studies focused on understanding circuitry involved in different aspects of nociception and pain are highlighted in this article. In addition, attention is drawn to the possibility of modification of chemo- and optogenetic techniques for use as potential therapies for treatment of chronic pain disorders in human patients.

Differential role of adenosine signaling cascade in acute and chronic pain

2019 ◽  
Vol 712 ◽  
pp. 134483
Author(s):  
Morayo G. Adebiyi ◽  
Jeanne Manalo ◽  
Rodney E. Kellems ◽  
Yang Xia
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Signaling Cascade ◽  
Adenosine Signaling
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