ArticlePain2016
Temporal preference in individuals reporting chronic pain: discounting of delayed pain-related and monetary outcomes.
Article in Pain, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- Whether temporal discounting is domain-specific between health outcomes and money: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2025Pooled it
- A multinational analysis of how emotions relate to economic decisions regarding time or risk.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
- Delay discounting of different outcomes: Review and theory.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Pooled it
- Intertemporal Decision-Making in Health Behaviours: A Conceptual Analysis.Journal of nursing management · 2026Review
- Intertemporal Decision-Making Ability in Patients with Chronic Diseases: A Concept Analysis.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Review
- Choosing well: A narrative review on chronic pain and decision-making.The journal of pain · 2025Review
- The phenotype of recovery XII: A reinforcer pathology perspective on associations between delay discounting and pain catastrophizing in substance use disorder recovery.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
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- No effects of acute stress on monetary delay discounting: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Review
- The role of chronic pain and pain anxiety in delay discounting of pain and monetary losses.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cultural dimensions of individualism and collectivism and risk of opioid misuse: A test of Social Cognitive Theory.Journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- Substance Use in the Performing Artist with Chronic Pain.Medical problems of performing artists · 2022Article
- The phenotype of recovery II: The association between delay discounting, self-reported quality of life, and remission status among individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Pain-induced impulsivity is sexually dimorphic and mu-opioid receptor sensitive in rats.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Factors mediating pain-related risk for opioid use disorder.Neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- Individuals with Chronic Pain Who Misuse Prescription Opioids Report Sex-Based Differences in Pain and Opioid Withdrawal.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2019Article
- To take or not to take: the association between perceived addiction risk, expected analgesic response and likelihood of trying novel pain relievers in self-identified chronic pain patients.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2018Article
- The relationship between treatment accessibility and preference amongst out-of-treatment individuals who engage in non-medical prescription opioid use.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2017Article
- High trait impulsivity potentiates the effects of chronic pain on impulsive behavior.Neurobiology of pain (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Opioid therapy for pain is associated with an increased risk for substance use disorders. This study's purpose was to determine the association between opioid misuse propensity (Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients in Pain-Revised) and delay discounting (DD), a behavioral process linked to substance use disorders, which quantifies the extent to which outcomes are devalued because of their delay. Participants reporting chronic pain (N = 249) answered pain and opioid use questions and then completed 4 DD tasks. Each of these tasks assessed either money or pain consequences, framed as either rewards or punishments. Each task involved hypothetical choices between immediate smaller vs delayed larger consequences. The extant Monetary Choice Questionnaire assessed DD of money rewards, and a modified version assessed discounting of money losses (immediate smaller loss vs larger delayed loss). Based on the Monetary Choice Questionnaire, the novel Pain Relief Choice Questionnaire assessed choices between an immediate short duration of pain relief vs a longer duration of pain relief. Similarly, the novel Additional Pain Choice Questionnaire assessed choices between an immediate short duration of additional pain vs a longer duration of additional pain. Discounting of both additional pain and money losses were significantly associated with high Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients in Pain-Revised scores-indicating participants at greatest risk for opioid misuse discount future punishments rather than future rewards compared with those at low risk. Measures of DD may have promise in more accurately identifying individuals at highest risk for opioid misuse during chronic opioid therapy.
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