ArticleJournal of pain research2022
Loneliness and Pain Catastrophizing Among Individuals with Chronic Pain: The Mediating Role of Depression.
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- Association of loneliness with the risk of pain in older Chinese adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Chronic pain is a risk factor for all-cause and cancer-specific mortality in cancer survivors: a population-based cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Loneliness and pain among community-dwelling middle-aged and older Black, Latino, and White adults in the United States.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Relationships among Depressive Symptoms, Body Weight, and Chronic Pain: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Shika Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Loneliness during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Patients with Burning Mouth Syndrome: A Multicentric Case-Control Italian Study.Depression and anxiety · 2023Article
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Abstract
Purpose: Loneliness increased during the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing guidelines, potentially exacerbating negative cognitions about pain. The present study investigated the longitudinal relationship between loneliness, assessed during the early weeks of the pandemic, and pain catastrophizing, assessed after living in the pandemic for approximately 1 year, among chronic pain patients. We also examined whether severity of depressive symptoms mediated this association. Methods: This prospective longitudinal study recruited individuals with chronic pain (N=93) from Massachusetts using an online convenience sampling method via the platform Rally. Participants completed an initial survey early after the onset of social distancing (4/28/20-6/17/20; Time 1) and a follow-up survey 1 year later (5/21/21-6/7/21; Time 2). Participants completed validated assessments of loneliness (T1), pain catastrophizing (T2), and depression (T2). Spearman correlations and Mann-Whitney Results: Participants had a mean age of 40.6 years and were majority female (80%) and White (82%). Greater loneliness was associated with subsequent higher pain catastrophizing ( Conclusion: Findings suggest that greater loneliness during the pandemic was associated with higher pain catastrophizing 1 year later, and severity of depression after living in the pandemic mediated this association. As loneliness, depression, and catastrophizing can all be modified with behavioral interventions, understanding the temporal associations among these variables is important for the employment of future empirically supported treatments.
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