ArticleThe journal of pain2021
A Mediation Appraisal of Catastrophizing, Pain-Related Outcomes, and Race in Adults With Knee Osteoarthritis.
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- A Systematic Review of Pain Catastrophizing and Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses · 2026Pooled it
- Racial Differences in Utilization of and Factors Contributing to the Use of Knee Replacement Surgery as a Treatment for Severe Knee Osteoarthritis: A Scoping Review.Osteoarthritis and cartilage open · 2026Review
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- Association of knee joint performance and gait patterns with pain catastrophizing in patients with severe knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
- Disparities in Clinical and Experimental Pain Between Non-Hispanic White and Asian American Individuals With Knee Osteoarthritis and the Role of Pain Catastrophizing: Pilot Study in Florida.Asian/Pacific Island nursing journal · 2025Article
- Ethnic differences in pain, function, and catastrophizing in South Florida adults with knee osteoarthritis.PloS one · 2025Article
- Investigating the association between knee osteoarthritis symptoms with pain catastrophizing domains between Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites.Rheumatology international · 2024Article
- Pain catastrophizing in rheumatic diseases: prevalence, origin, and implications.Rheumatology international · 2024Review
- Race, Ethnicity, and Belief in a Just World: Implications for Chronic Pain Acceptance Among Individuals with Chronic Low Back Pain.The journal of pain · 2023Article
- Individual Dimensions of Pain Catastrophizing Do Not Mediate the Effect of Sociodemographic and Psychological Factors on Chronic Orofacial Pain Severity, Interference, and Jaw Limitation: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.The journal of pain · 2023Article
- Racial Differences in Head Pain and Other Pain-Related Outcomes After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.Journal of neurotrauma · 2023Article
- Avoidance-Endurance Model in Older Black Men with Low Back Pain: Exploring Relationships.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Elucidating factors contributing to disparities in pain-related experiences among adults with or at risk for knee osteoarthritis.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Biological sex influences psychological aspects of the biopsychosocial model related to chronic pain intensity and interference among South Korean patients with chronic secondary musculoskeletal pain in rheumatic diseases.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Clinical vitamin D levels are associated with insular volume and inferior temporal gyrus white matter surface area in community-dwelling individuals with knee pain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Imperative for Racial Equality in Pain Science: A Way Forward.The journal of pain · 2021Article
- John Henryism-racial stressors among older black men with low back pain.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)Observational
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Abstract
The current cross-sectional study investigates whether pain catastrophizing mediates the relationship between ethnicity/race and pain, disability and physical function in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. Furthermore, this study examined mediation at 2-year follow-up. Participants included 187 community-dwelling adults with unilateral or bilateral knee pain who screened positive for knee osteoarthritis. Participants completed several self-reported pain-related measures and pain catastrophizing subscale at baseline and 2-year follow-up. Non-Hispanic Black (NHB) adults reported greater pain, disability, and poorer functional performance compared to their non-Hispanic White (NHW) counterparts (Ps < .05). NHB adults also reported greater catastrophizing compared to NHW adults. Mediation analyses revealed that catastrophizing mediated the relationship between ethnicity/race and pain outcome measures. Specifically, NHB individuals reported significantly greater pain and disability, and exhibited lower levels of physical function, compared to NHW individuals, and these differences were mediated by higher levels of catastrophizing among NHB persons. Catastrophizing was a significant predictor of pain and disability 2-years later in both ethnic/race groups. These results suggest that pain catastrophizing is an important variable to consider in efforts to reduce ethnic/race group disparities in chronic pain. The findings are discussed in light of structural/systemic factors that may contribute to greater self-reports of pain catastrophizing among NHB individuals. PERSPECTIVE: The current study examines whether pain catastrophizing mediates the relationship between ethnicity/race and OA-related pain, disability, and functional impairment at baseline and during a 2-year follow-up period in non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White adults with knee pain. These results point to the need for interventions that target pain catastrophizing.
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