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Jennifer Jacqueline Pells

Jennifer Jacqueline Pells

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
jennifer.pells@duke.edu
Box 3159 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27705
407 Crutchfield Street, Duke Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery, Durham, NC 27704

Selected Publications

Pain coping skills training and lifestyle behavioral weight management in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled study.

Journal Article Pain · June 2012 Overweight and obese patients with osteoarthritis (OA) experience more OA pain and disability than patients who are not overweight. This study examined the long-term efficacy of a combined pain coping skills training (PCST) and lifestyle behavioral weight ... Full text Link to item Cite

Brief intensive lifestyle intervention leads to rapid diabetes improvements

Journal Article American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine · March 1, 2012 This prospective study examined the immediate health benefits associated with participation in a brief intensive behavioral weight and diabetes management program for individuals with type 2 diabetes. Participants were 55 adults with type 2 diabetes and ob ... Full text Cite

The relationship of self-reported pain and functional impairment to gait mechanics in overweight and obese persons with knee osteoarthritis.

Journal Article Arch Phys Med Rehabil · November 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine the degree to which 2 commonly used measures of pain and disability, the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS) and the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), relate to objective gait measurements. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear in osteoarthritis patients: relationships to pain and disability.

Journal Article J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2009 This study examined the degree to which pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear explain pain, psychological disability, physical disability, and walking speed in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Participants in this study were 106 individu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Domain specific self-efficacy mediates the impact of pain catastrophizing on pain and disability in overweight and obese osteoarthritis patients.

Journal Article J Pain · October 2008 UNLABELLED: This study examined whether self-efficacy mediated the relationship between pain catastrophizing and pain and disability. Participants were 192 individuals diagnosed with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knees who were overweight or obese. Multiple m ... Full text Link to item Cite

Arthritis self-efficacy and self-efficacy for resisting eating: relationships to pain, disability, and eating behavior in overweight and obese individuals with osteoarthritic knee pain.

Journal Article Pain · June 2008 This study examined arthritis self-efficacy and self-efficacy for resisting eating as predictors of pain, disability, and eating behaviors in overweight or obese patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Patients (N=174) with a body mass index between ... Full text Link to item Cite

Sex differences in the relation of weight loss self-efficacy, binge eating, and depressive symptoms to weight loss success in a residential obesity treatment program.

Journal Article Eat Behav · April 2008 The aim of the current study was to examine whether weight loss self-efficacy, binge eating, and depressive symptoms predicted weight loss during treatment, and whether gender moderates these associations with prospective data from 297 participants (223 wo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pain catastrophizing in borderline morbidly obese and morbidly obese individuals with osteoarthritic knee pain.

Journal Article Pain Res Manag · 2008 OBJECTIVE: There is limited information about how morbidly obese osteoarthritis (OA) patients cope with the pain they experience. Pain catastrophizing is an important predictor of pain and adjustment in persons with persistent pain. This may be particularl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Are we there yet? A review of gender comparisons in three behavioral journals through the 20th century.

Journal Article Behav Ther · December 2007 Despite overwhelming evidence that gender plays a significant role in the course of numerous psychological disorders, researchers have historically neglected to address gender similarities and differences in their research. Previous reviews of the psycholo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Seasonal reactivity: Attentional bias and psychophysiological arousal in seasonal and nonseasonal depression

Journal Article Cognitive Therapy and Research · October 1, 2007 Individuals diagnosed with seasonal depression (MDD-SAD), nonseasonal depression (MDD), and controls completed a modified Stroop task and viewed winter and summer content scenes while skin conductance levels were recorded. Participants in the MDD-SAD and M ... Full text Cite

Fear of movement (kinesiophobia), pain, and psychopathology in patients with sickle cell disease.

Journal Article Clin J Pain · October 2007 OBJECTIVES: Fear of movement (ie, kinesiophobia) has emerged as a significant predictor of pain-related outcomes including disability and psychologic distress across various types of pain (eg, back pain, headache, fibromyalgia, complex regional pain syndro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Stress reactivity and coping in seasonal and nonseasonal depression.

Journal Article Behav Res Ther · May 2007 Stress, stress reactivity, and coping skill use were examined in individuals with seasonal depression, nonseasonal depression, and nondepressed controls. Although participants in the two depressed groups reported using more avoidance coping strategies than ... Full text Link to item Cite

Moderate chronic pain, weight and dietary intake in African-American adult patients with sickle cell disease.

Journal Article J Natl Med Assoc · December 2005 In this exploratory study, we evaluated weight status and dietary intake patterns during painful episodes in adult patients with SCD. Specifically, we explored the relation between pain severity and body mass index (BMI), and we tested the hypothesis that ... Link to item Cite

Gender differences in self-reports of depression: The response bias hypothesis revisited

Journal Article Sex Roles · September 1, 2005 This study was designed to revisit the response bias hypothesis, which posits that gender differences in depression prevalence rates may reflect a tendency for men to underreport depressive symptoms. In this study, we examined aspects of gender role social ... Full text Cite