ISSN 1758-1869 10.2217/PMT.11.14 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Pain Manage. (2011) 1(3), 249–256 SUMMARY Over the past two decades increasingly compelling research has identified pain catastrophizing as an important psychological risk factor for a wide range of pain‐related outcomes. In response to this literature, there have been calls for the clinical use of catastrophizing as a prognostic indic...

Using a self-report survey methodology in a cross-sectional consecutive primary care sample (N = 238), we examined pain at 3 time points (today, past month, past year), pain catastrophizing using the Pain Catastrophizing Scale, and history of legal charges for 5 drug-related crimes as defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Among the subsample of 185 participants with histories of being...

BACKGROUND This study examined which parents report to be solicitous or discouraging in response to their child's pain, and when they do so. METHODS Using a vignette methodology, mothers (n = 472) and fathers (n = 271) imagined their child in pain situations varying in duration (1 day or several weeks) and cause of pain (known or unknown biomedical cause). RESULTS In general, fathers demons...

The multidimensional experience of pain is thought to be partially inXuenced by the pain modulation system as well as by individual psychological components. Recent studies demonstrated possible common neural network mediating both domains. The present study examined the relationships between pain perception, pain modulation, and catastrophizing in healthy subjects. Forty-eight participants (29...

BACKGROUND Cognitive- and acceptance-based approaches are used to help people live with chronic pain. Little is known about how these constructs relate to each other. In this study, we examined how cognitive representations of chronic pain relate to interpersonal styles such as catastrophizing and the behavioural process of acceptance of chronic pain. This study further examined how these proce...

One hundred and sixty-eight patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knees participated in this study. Of the participants, 72 were men and 96 were women. All participants completed the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS), underwent a 10 min standardized observation session to assess their pain behavior, and completed the Catastrophizing Scale of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ)...

The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Dutch itching cognitions questionnaire (ICQ). This by origin German questionnaire, the Juckreiz Kognitons Fragebogen consists of two subscales: catastrophizing and helpless coping and problem-focused coping, and measures itch-related coping. The results were compared with the German and Japanese validation studies. The...

Although separate lines of behaviorally oriented pain research have drawn attention to the importance of pain catastrophizing and trait worry, little is known about how they work together to influence aspects of chronic pain. Integrating pain research with the broader anxiety, cognitive science, and learning literature, we hypothesized that the process (vs. content) of worry influences pain thr...

Catastrophizing about pain is defined as ‘‘an exaggerated negative ‘mental set’ brought to bear during actual or anticipated pain experience’’ [25]. It is a salient form of worry, and one that has proven useful in explaining pain severity, disability, and adaptation to treatment in a range of different conditions and settings [7,12]. Catastrophizing involves repeated thought about threat as unc...

BACKGROUND Abdominal pain is commonly reported by youth with IBD. In a significant subset of youth, pain severity and pain catastrophizing (i.e., unhelpful thoughts related to the pain) may contribute to more negative outcomes and greater impairment in functioning. This study aimed to examine relationships of pain severity and pain catastrophizing with functional disability among a sample of yo...