ArticleInternational journal of behavioral medicine2017
The Key Role of Pain Catastrophizing in the Disability of Patients with Acute Back Pain.
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- The Association Between Resilience and Mental Health in the Somatically Ill.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2018Pooled it
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- A scoping review on the methods of assessment and role of resilience on function and movement-evoked pain when experiencing a musculoskeletal injury.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Article
- Association Between Coping Strategies and Pain-Related Outcomes Among Individuals with Chronic Orofacial Pain.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- Engaging endogenous opioid circuits in pain affective processes.Journal of neuroscience research · 2022Review
- The Role of Pain Catastrophizing and Pain Acceptance in Performance-Based and Self-Reported Physical Functioning in Individuals with Fibromyalgia and Obesity.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Article
- Paravertebral Muscle Mechanical Properties and Spinal Range of Motion in Patients with Acute Neck or Low Back Pain: A Case-Control Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Effectiveness of Thermal Neuromodulation Using Precise Heat in the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain Over 60 Days: An In-Home User Trial.Journal of pain research · 2021Article
- Fear-Avoidance Behavior and Sickness Absence in Patients with Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Article
- Opioid Pain Medication Prescription for Chronic Pain in Primary Care Centers: The Roles of Pain Acceptance, Pain Intensity, Depressive Symptoms, Pain Catastrophizing, Sex, and Age.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Influence of Psychosocial and Sociodemographic Variables on Sickness Leave and Disability in Patients with Work-Related Neck and Low Back Pain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Contextual risk among adolescents receiving opioid prescriptions for acute pain in pediatric ambulatory care settings.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Pain catastrophizing, kinesiophobia and fear-avoidance in non-specific work-related low-back pain as predictors of sickness absence.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeThis study investigated the role of anxiety sensitivity, resilience, pain catastrophizing, depression, pain fear-avoidance beliefs, and pain intensity in patients with acute back pain-related disability.
methodTwo hundred and thirty-two patients with acute back pain completed questionnaires on anxiety sensitivity, resilience, pain catastrophizing, fear-avoidance beliefs, depression, pain intensity, and disability.
resultsA structural equation modelling analysis revealed that anxiety sensitivity was associated with pain catastrophizing, and resilience was associated with lower levels of depression. Pain catastrophizing was positively associated with fear-avoidance beliefs and pain intensity. Depression was associated with fear-avoidance beliefs, but was not associated with pain intensity. Finally, catastrophizing, fear-avoidance beliefs, and pain intensity were positively and significantly associated with acute back pain-related disability.
conclusionAlthough fear-avoidance beliefs and pain intensity were associated with disability, the results showed that pain catastrophizing was a central variable in the pain experience and had significant direct associations with disability when pain was acute. Anxiety sensitivity appeared to be an important antecedent of catastrophizing, whereas the influence of resilience on the acute back pain experience was limited to its relationship with depression.
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