ArticleBritish journal of pain2021
Time course of attentional bias to painful facial expressions and the moderating role of attentional control: an eye-tracking study.
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- Attention to food cues following media multitasking is associated with cross-sectional BMI among adolescents.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Attentional processing of pain faces and other emotional faces in chronic pain-an eye-tracking study.PloS one · 2021Article
- Attentional Bias Towards Visual Itch and Pain Stimuli in Itch- and Pain-free Individuals?Acta dermato-venereologica · 2020Article
- Attentional Patterns Toward Pain-Related Information: Comparison Between Chronic Pain Patients and Non-pain Control Group.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Altered pain-related attention engagement in individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain: Evidence from EM-ERP.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
introductionThis study investigated the time course of attention to pain and examined the moderating effect of attentional control in the relationship between pain catastrophizing and attentional bias in chronic pain patients.
methodsA total of 28 patients with chronic pain and 29 pain-free individuals observed pictures of pain, happy and neutral facial expressions while their gaze behaviour was recorded. Pain intensity and duration, anxiety, depression, stress, attentional control and pain catastrophizing were assessed by questionnaires.
resultsIn all subjects, the pattern of attention for pain faces was characterized by initial vigilance, followed by avoidance. No significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of orientation towards the stimuli, the duration of first fixation, the average duration of fixation or number of fixations on the pain stimuli. Attentional control moderated the relationship between catastrophizing and overall dwell time for happy faces in pain patients, indicating that those with high attentional control and high catastrophizing focused more on happy faces, whereas the reverse was true for those with low attentional control.
conclusionThis study supported the vigilance-avoidance pattern of attention to painful facial expressions and a moderation effect of attentional control in the association between pain catastrophizing and attentional bias to happy faces among pain patients.
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