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ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2018

Pain catastrophizing, activity engagement and pain willingness as predictors of the benefits of multidisciplinary cognitive behaviorally-based chronic pain treatment.

Jordi Miró, Elena Castarlenas, Rocío de la Vega, Santiago Galán, Elisabet Sánchez-Rodríguez, Mark P Jensen, Douglas Cane

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Article in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Jordi MiróUnit for the Study and Treatment of Pain - ALGOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. jordi.miro@urv.cat.ORCID 0000-0002-1998-6653
Elena CastarlenasUnit for the Study and Treatment of Pain - ALGOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Rocío de la VegaUnit for the Study and Treatment of Pain - ALGOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Santiago GalánUnit for the Study and Treatment of Pain - ALGOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Elisabet Sánchez-RodríguezUnit for the Study and Treatment of Pain - ALGOS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Mark P JensenDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Douglas CanePain Management Unit, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Institut de Recerca Biomèdica Catalunya Sud · ESNova Scotia Health Authority · CAUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pain catastrophizing and pain acceptance have been shown to be associated with improvements after participation in cognitive behaviorally-based treatment (CBT) for chronic pain. However, it is not yet clear how important each of these factors is relative to the other. Furthermore, it is also not clear if multidisciplinary pain treatment has the same impact on the two primary dimensions of pain acceptance (activity engagement and pain willingness), and whether their role in explaining treatment outcome differs as a function of the outcomes under study. The aim of this study was to examine the relative importance of changes in pain catastrophizing, activity engagement and pain willingness as predictors of the benefits of a multidisciplinary CBT for chronic pain. 186 adults with chronic pain participated. Pain catastrophizing and activity engagement, but not pain willingness, were significantly associated with treatment outcome. Moreover, each one evidenced different patterns of associations with outcomes. Specifically, while changes in both were associated with improvements in depressive symptoms, only catastrophizing was associated with improvements in pain intensity and only activity engagement was associated with improvements in pain-related disability.

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AdultCatastrophizationChronic PainCognitive Behavioral TherapyDepressionFearFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPain MeasurementPain ThresholdSurveys and QuestionnairesTreatment OutcomeActivity engagementChronic pain treatmentPain acceptancePain catastrophizingPain willingness

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PMID29736780
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