Observational studyPloS one2017
Traumatic injury and perceived injustice: Fault attributions matter in a "no-fault" compensation state.
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- Social network responses to victims of potentially traumatic events: A systematic review using qualitative evidence synthesis.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
- Perceived injustice and its relation to chronic pain outcome in complex regional pain syndrome and chronic musculoskeletal pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Perceived Injustice in Cancer Survivors: Population-Specific Cut-Off Score and Relations with Personal Factors, Symptoms and Quality of Life-A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The role of perceived patient injustice on pain related and functional outcomes in orthopaedic patients; a systematic review.Journal of orthopaedics · 2023Review
- The Association Between Case Manager Interactions and Serious Mental Illness Following a Physical Workplace Injury or Illness: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Workers' Compensation Claimants in Ontario.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Do the successful revision surgery for humeral nonunion solve all the effects on health-related quality of life? A retrospective cohort study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- Classification of road traffic injury collision characteristics using text mining analysis: Implications for road injury prevention.PloS one · 2021Article
- The Association Between Fault Attribution and Work Participation After Road Traffic Injury: A Registry-Based Observational Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2020Observational
- An Assessment of Long-Term Physical and Emotional Quality of Life of Persons Injured on 9/11/2001.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Analysis of healthcare service utilization after transport-related injuries by a mixture of hidden Markov models.PloS one · 2018Article
- Complex regional pain syndrome-up-to-date.Pain reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundTraumatic injury can lead to loss, suffering and feelings of injustice. Previous research has shown that perceived injustice is associated with poorer physical and mental wellbeing in persons with chronic pain. This study aimed to identify the relative association between injury, compensation and pain-related characteristics and perceived injustice 12-months after traumatic injury.
methods433 participants were recruited from the Victorian Orthopedic Trauma Outcomes Registry and Victorian State Trauma Registry, and completed questionnaires at 12-14 months after injury as part of an observational cohort study. Using hierarchical linear regression we examined the relationships between baseline demographics (sex, age, education, comorbidities), injury (injury severity, hospital length of stay), compensation (compensation status, fault, lawyer involvement), and health outcomes (SF-12) and perceived injustice. We then examined how much additional variance in perceived injustice was related to worse pain severity, interference, self-efficacy, catastrophizing, kinesiophobia or disability.
resultsOnly a small portion of variance in perceived injustice was related to baseline demographics (especially education level), and injury severity. Attribution of fault to another, consulting a lawyer, health-related quality of life, disability and the severity of pain-related cognitions explained the majority of variance in perceived injustice. While univariate analyses showed that compensable injury led to higher perceptions of injustice, this did not remain significant when adjusting for all other factors, including fault attribution and consulting a lawyer.
conclusionsIn addition to the "justice" aspects of traumatic injury, the health impacts of injury, emotional distress related to pain (catastrophizing), and the perceived impact of pain on activity (pain self-efficacy), had stronger associations with perceptions of injustice than either injury or pain severity. To attenuate the likelihood of poor recovery from injury, clinical interventions that support restoration of health-related quality of life, and adjustment to the impacts of trauma are needed.
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