Observational studyPain medicine (Malden, Mass.)2022
Profiles of Risk and Resilience in Chronic Pain: Loneliness, Social Support, Mindfulness, and Optimism Coming out of the First Pandemic Year.
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- Pain Resilience Therapy vs. Pain Neuroscience Education for Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: Secondary Analysis of Data from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Risk and Resilience Factors.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Invisible pain: Sex/gender differences in pain-related stigma.Acta psychologica · 2026Article
- Understanding risk and protective factors for pain and healthy aging: an intersectional and resilience-based perspective.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Decoding pain and mental health patterns in youth with chronic pain during COVID-19.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A dual-focus approach for evaluating contributors to chronic pain: The roles of psychosocial risk and resilience factors.Current opinion in psychology · 2025Review
- The Role of Virtual Reality in Chronic Pain and Loneliness: Narrative Review.Journal of medical extended reality · 2025Review
- Editorial: Pain and relationships.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- The Interconnection Between Social Support and Emotional Distress Among Individuals with Chronic Pain: A Narrative Review.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectiveIndividuals experience chronic pain differently, not only because of different clinical diagnoses, but also because of differing degrees of influence from biopsychosocial pain modulators. We aimed to cluster patients with chronic pain into distinct subgroups based on psychosocial characteristics and pain intensity, and we subsequently examined group differences in pain-related interference approximately 1 year later.
methodsIn this observational, longitudinal study, patients with chronic pain (n = 94) completed validated assessments of psychosocial characteristics and pain intensity at the beginning of COVID-19-related social distancing (April to June 2020). One year later (May to June 2021), patients completed a follow-up survey with assessments of pain interference, loneliness, social support, mindfulness, and optimism.
resultsA cluster analysis, using psychosocial factors and pain intensity, empirically produced three patient groups: 1) psychosocial predominant (PSP), characterized by high psychosocial distress and average pain intensity; 2) pain intensity predominant (PIP), characterized by average psychosocial distress and high pain intensity; and 3) less elevated symptoms (LES), characterized by low psychosocial distress and low pain intensity. At the 1-year follow-up, patients in the PSP and PIP clusters suffered greater pain interference than patients in the LES cluster, while patients in the PSP cluster also reported greater loneliness and lower mindfulness and optimism.
conclusionsAn empirical psychosocial-based clustering of patients identified three distinct groups that differed in pain interference. Patients with high psychosocial modulation of pain at the onset of social distancing (the PSP cluster) suffered not only greater pain interference but also greater loneliness and lower levels of mindfulness and optimism, which suggests some potential behavioral targets for this group in the future.
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