Journal articlePain · July 1, 2026
Remote cognitive behavioral therapy-based interventions for chronic pain (CBT-CP-based) have consistently shown modest pain benefits. With remote treatment availability accelerating and increasingly tight healthcare resources, clinical decision-makers need ...
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Journal articleValue Health · June 13, 2026
OBJECTIVES: Assess cost-effectiveness from the health plan perspective comparing 2 remote cognitive-behavioral-therapy-for-chronic-pain-based interventions (1) pain TRAINER online program and (2) health coach-led telehealth program relative to usual care ( ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · June 7, 2026
Among persons with High Impact Chronic Pain (HICP), we assessed the impact of cognitive behaviorally-based self-management interventions on sustained HICP and on favorable chronic pain outcomes (mild or discontinued chronic pain). Adults with HICP (N=2331) ...
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Journal articlePain Manag · June 2026
OBJECTIVE: Describe baseline characteristics and representativeness of AIM-Back trial participants relative to Veterans with low back pain at participating clinics. METHODS: Veterans were referred to AIM-Back randomized care pathways and included 1) enroll ...
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Journal articleJAMA Intern Med · June 1, 2026
IMPORTANCE: Acute and subacute low back pain (LBP) often progresses to a chronic impactful back problem in patients with elevated risk. The most effective way to prevent this progression is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of spinal manip ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · June 2026
BACKGROUND: Expectancies for alcohol analgesia (EAA; beliefs that alcohol use can reduce pain) are linked to heavier drinking in chronic non-cancer pain; however, no studies have examined EAA in those with cancer-related pain. AIMS: These secondary analyse ...
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Journal articlePain · May 1, 2026
Self-initiated actions often generate sensory signals perceived to be less intense than identical signals generated externally. This phenomenon, known as sensory attenuation, is particularly robust for nonpainful tactile sensations. For pain, however, even ...
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Journal articleAm J Prev Med · May 2026
INTRODUCTION: Chronic pain is linked to elevated tobacco use, but long-term trends in combustible smoking and E-cigarette use in this group remain unclear. Understanding these trajectories is vital for designing effective public health interventions. This ...
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Journal articleJ Psychosoc Oncol · April 8, 2026
OBJECTIVES: Behavioral management is recommended for cancer pain, yet not well integrated into clinical practice. PainPac is an asynchronous mobile application that delivers behavioral pain coping strategies. We evaluated PainPac's feasibility, acceptabili ...
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Journal articleJAMA Netw Open · April 1, 2026
IMPORTANCE: Low back pain (LBP) is a leading cause of disability, and there is limited evidence from clinical practice to support the effectiveness of alternative care models. OBJECTIVE: To compare a sequenced care pathway (SCP) with a pain navigator pathw ...
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Journal articlePain · March 1, 2026
Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is the most common and disabling of all pain conditions. Combination treatment that includes duloxetine and web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has not been rigorously evaluated. We investigated the effectiveness ...
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Journal articleJAMA · February 10, 2026
IMPORTANCE: Low back pain (LBP) is influenced by interrelated physical, psychological, and social factors. However, most treatments focus on symptom reduction without addressing the underlying biopsychosocial needs of patients. OBJECTIVE: To determine the ...
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Journal articleAm J Kidney Dis · February 2026
RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Adults receiving maintenance hemodialysis (HD) frequently report pain, yet detailed descriptions of pain in this population are lacking. This study examines pain locations, characteristics, and associations with other symptoms in adu ...
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Journal articleFront Aging · 2026
INTRODUCTION: For older breast cancer survivors taking adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET), side effects are common and significantly impact quality of life. Self-efficacy is an important protective factor in this population, but little is known about its rel ...
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Journal articlePain · January 1, 2026
Abstract – Results suggest that psychosocial treatments for chronic pain work via several mechanisms, and that they often do so to similar degrees and in similar ways. Extant research, however, has focused on individual and/or independent effects of mechan ...
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Journal articlePhysiotherapy · December 2025
AIM: To explore physiotherapists' experiences, beliefs, and opinions about psychologically informed practice (PIP) in order to design a training programme for non-psychologist clinicians to enhance their PIP skills. DESIGN: This study adopted an interpreti ...
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Journal articleSemin Arthritis Rheum · December 2025
BACKGROUND: Treatment guidelines for knee osteoarthritis (KOA) vary across organizations, partly due to the lack of high-quality evidence. Experts disagree on the role of psychological management, pharmacologic treatments including opioids, and interventio ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · December 2025
BACKGROUND: People living longer with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) experience heightened psychological distress and decrements in quality of life. Therefore, we developed LiveWell, an 8-session adapted dialectical behavioral therapy skill ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · November 2025
OBJECTIVE: To critically appraise the literature on the cost-effectiveness of guideline-recommended treatments for osteoarthritis (OA). DESIGN: Electronic databases were searched for studies that provided incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) for tr ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · October 2025
OBJECTIVE: To identify and quantify risk factors for incident knee osteoarthritis (KOA) across the lifespan. METHODS: This systematic review and meta-analysis identified eligible studies from seven electronic databases and three registries. Longitudinal co ...
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Journal articleBreast Cancer Res Treat · July 2025
PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of providing a loving-kindness meditation (LKM) intervention vs. a music intervention during core-needle breast biopsy (CNBB) on adherence to subsequent, clinically recommended breast cancer screening and surveillance. METHO ...
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Journal articleJAMA Netw Open · June 2, 2025
IMPORTANCE: Increasing physical function for individuals in chronic pain is challenging. Despite the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials guidelines, no pain trial has comprehensively assessed multimodal physical funct ...
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Journal articleJ Behav Med · April 2025
Pain Coping Skills Training (PCST) is a first-line cognitive-behavioral, non-pharmacological treatment for chronic pain and comorbid symptoms. PCST has been shown to be effective in racially and ethnically diverse cohorts across several chronic medical con ...
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Journal articlePain Pract · April 2025
BACKGROUND: Pain from musculoskeletal pain conditions is often persistent, bothersome, and negatively impacts physical function. Individuals with musculoskeletal pain report difficulty with walking and regular activities. For some, this may be related to o ...
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Journal articlePain · March 1, 2025
One-fifth of US adults experience chronic pain, which is associated with increased tobacco and cannabis use. Although bidirectional relationships between tobacco and pain have been demonstrated, pathways between pain, cannabis use, and co-use of cannabis a ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · March 2025
The personal, social and economic burden of chronic pain is enormous. Tremendous research efforts are being directed toward understanding, preventing, and managing chronic pain. Yet patients with chronic pain, clinicians and the public are sometimes poorly ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · March 2025
Chronic pain affects ∼20% of the adult population and is associated with smoking. Smoking and pain worsen each other in the long term, but short-term temporal associations between smoking and pain throughout the day are unclear. Understanding these relatio ...
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Journal articleChiropr Man Therap · February 5, 2025
BACKGROUND: There is limited high-quality research examining conservative treatments for back-related leg pain (BRLP). This feasibility study was done in preparation for a full-scale trial comparing a whole-person supported self-management intervention to ...
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Journal articlePain · February 1, 2025
Findings suggest that cognitive therapy (CT), mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and behavior therapy (BT) for chronic pain produce improvements through changes in putative mechanisms. Evidence supporting this notion is largely based on findings sh ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · February 2025
BACKGROUND: Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are a cornerstone of adjuvant systemic therapy for postmenopausal patients with hormone-receptor positive (HR+) breast cancer. Although AIs decrease cancer recurrence rates and improve survival rates, approximately 50 ...
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Journal articleJAMA Intern Med · February 1, 2025
IMPORTANCE: Chronic pain is common among individuals with dialysis-dependent kidney failure. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of pain coping skills training (PCST), a cognitive behavioral intervention, on pain interference. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PAR ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · January 2025
OBJECTIVE: Studies have found that cancer patients with dependent children exhibit high symptoms of anxiety, depression, and worry. Patients' parenting concerns can negatively impact their own and their family's adjustment to the cancer experience. However ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Res · 2025
OBJECTIVE: Vaso-occlusive events (VOEs) are the primary cause of acute pain in individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD), where high-dose opioids are the current standard treatment. Ketamine, a non-opioid analgesic, holds potential for managing acute SCD ...
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Journal articleBehav Sleep Med · 2025
OBJECTIVES: Insomnia is common for women with breast cancer, and related to fatigue, depression, and pain. Research exploring these symptoms among breast cancer patients in medically underserved areas is lacking. This study aimed to characterize symptom se ...
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Journal articleHealth Psychol · December 2024
UNLABELLED: Cancer poses significant challenges for patients and caregiving partners. Avoidant communication has been linked to poorer psychosocial adjustment to cancer. Two conceptual models have been proposed to account for this linkage: the social-cogni ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · October 2024
Subgroup analyses conducted among U.S. national survey data have estimated that 27 to 34% of adults aged ≥65 years have chronic pain. However, none of these studies focused specifically on older adults or examined disparities in chronic pain in those aged ...
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Journal articlePain · July 1, 2024
People with chronic pain often attempt to manage pain and concurrent emotional distress with analgesic substances. Habitual use of such substances-even when not opioid-based-can pose side effect risks. A negative reinforcement model has been proposed where ...
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Journal articlePilot Feasibility Stud · June 8, 2024
BACKGROUND: Young adult (YA) cancer survivors are a growing, yet underserved population who often face significant and long-lasting cancer-related physical (e.g., pain, fatigue) and emotional (e.g., psychological distress) symptoms. Post-treatment symptoms ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · June 2024
Psychosocial interventions for people with chronic pain produce significant improvements in outcomes, but these effects on average are modest with much variability in the benefits conferred on individuals. To enhance the magnitude of treatment effects, cha ...
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Journal articleTrials · May 18, 2024
BACKGROUND: Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is the most common, disabling, and costly of all pain conditions. While evidence exists for the efficacy of both duloxetine and web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as monotherapy, there is a clear nee ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · March 2024
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is associated with substantial impairment in physical function, which has been identified as a top concern among persons with pain. GetActive-Fitbit, a mind-body activity program, is feasible, acceptable, and associated with improv ...
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Journal articleJ Man Manip Ther · February 2024
BACKGROUND: Treatment mechanisms involve the steps or processes through which an intervention unfolds and produces change in an outcome variable. Treatment mechanisms can be specific to the intervention provided (i.e. pain modulation) or shared with other ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · January 2024
Pain is the primary symptomatic manifestation of sickle cell disease (SCD), an inherited hemoglobinopathy. The characteristics that influence pain experiences and outcomes in SCD are not fully understood. The primary objective of this study was to use mult ...
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Journal articleNurs Res · January 2024
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain occurs in 30% of older adults. This prevalence rate is expected to increase, given the growth in the older adult population and the associated growth of chronic conditions contributing to pain. No population-based studies have prov ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · January 2024
The HOPE Consortium Trial to Reduce Pain and Opioid Use in Hemodialysis (HOPE Trial) is a multicenter randomized trial addressing chronic pain among patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis for end-stage kidney disease. The trial uses a sequential, mult ...
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Journal articleBehav Sleep Med · 2024
OBJECTIVES: Patients with hematologic cancer experience severe symptoms (i.e. insomnia, fatigue, pain, distress). Few interventions addressing insomnia and other symptoms exist for this population. Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Insomnia (MBTI) may be appro ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · December 2023
BACKGROUND: Many patients with advanced cancer describe pain as a debilitating symptom that greatly interferes with daily activities and enjoyment of life. Psychosocial interventions can improve cancer-related pain but rarely address spiritual concerns (e. ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · December 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Despite similar outcomes for surgery and physical therapy (PT), the number of surgeries to treat rotator cuff related shoulder pain (RCRSP) is increasing. Interventions designed to enhance treatment expectations for PT have been shown to improv ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · December 2023
For some time, the gold standard treatment for anxiety disorders has been exposure therapy, defined as the repeated approach of anxiety-inducing situations, memories, or physiological sensations. Existing treatments to target fear and avoidance of pain can ...
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Journal articleAddict Behav · November 2023
INTRODUCTION: Rates of tobacco and cannabis use are disproportionately high among individuals with pain, and evidence suggests that pain may engender greater likelihood of substance co-use, yielding additive risk. This study examined national associations ...
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Journal articlePain · November 1, 2023
This article highlights advances in basic science preclinical pain research, clinical research, and psychological research occurring over the 50 years since the International Association for the Study of Pain was founded. It presents important findings and ...
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Journal articlePain · September 1, 2023
Behavioral pain management interventions are efficacious for reducing pain in patients with cancer. However, optimal dosing of behavioral pain interventions for pain reduction is unknown, and this hinders routine clinical use. A Sequential Multiple Assignm ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · September 2023
Pain coping skills training (PCST) is efficacious in patients with cancer, but clinical access is limited. To inform implementation, as a secondary outcome, we estimated the cost-effectiveness of 8 dosing strategies of PCST evaluated in a sequential multip ...
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Journal articleJ Adolesc Young Adult Oncol · August 2023
Purpose: Improved symptom management is a critical although unmet post-treatment need for young adult (YA) cancer survivors (aged 18-39 at diagnosis). This study aimed to develop and refine a behavioral symptom management intervention for YA survivors. Met ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · July 2023
OBJECTIVE: For patients with advanced cancer, pain is a common and debilitating symptom that can negatively impact physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This trial examined the feasibility and initial effects of Meaning-Centered Pain Coping Skills ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials Commun · June 2023
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) patients in early to mid-adulthood (≤50 years) are challenged by high symptom burden (i.e., pain, fatigue, distress) and age-related stressors (e.g., managing family, work). Cognitive behavioral theory (CBT)-based coping ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · May 25, 2023
BACKGROUND: Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is widespread, costly, and burdensome to patients and health systems. Little is known about non-pharmacological treatments for the secondary prevention of cLBP. There is some evidence that treatments addressing psyc ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · April 2023
Nonpharmacological treatments are considered first-line pain management strategies, but they remain clinically underused. For years, pain-focused pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) have generated evidence for the enhanced use of nonpharmacological interventi ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · April 1, 2023
OBJECTIVES: Low back pain (LBP) is highly prevalent and disabling for older adults. Movement-evoked pain is an emerging measure that may help to predict disability; but is not currently a part of geriatric LBP clinical care. This study tested the safety an ...
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Journal articleTrials · March 16, 2023
BACKGROUND: Cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain (CBT-CP) is an effective but underused treatment for high-impact chronic pain. Increased access to CBT-CP services for pain is of critical public health importance, particularly for rural and medica ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · March 2023
OBJECTIVE: Cognitive therapy (CT), mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and behavior therapy (BT) for chronic pain treatment produce outcome improvements. Evidence also suggests that changes in putative therapeutic mechanisms are associated with chan ...
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Journal articleMindfulness (N Y) · January 2023
OBJECTIVES: Mindfulness is theorized to decrease the affective amplification of chronic pain by facilitating a shift from emotionally-laden, catastrophic pain appraisals of nociceptive input to reappraising chronic pain as an innocuous sensory signal that ...
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Journal articlePalliat Support Care · December 2022
OBJECTIVE: To develop a new caregiver-assisted pain coping skills training protocol specifically tailored for community-dwelling persons with cognitive impairment and pain, and assess its feasibility and acceptability. METHOD: In Phase I, we conducted inte ...
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Journal articlePain Manag Nurs · December 2022
The public health crisis of chronic pain has only increased in recognition since the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Relieving Pain in America (2011) called for a cultural transformation in the way pain is viewed, treated, and put forward specific recommenda ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · November 2022
>276,000 Americans will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, lobular carcinoma in situ, or ductal carcinoma in situ this year and most will undergo breast surgery as part of their care. Although prognosis is excellent, many patients experience persist ...
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Journal articleAnn Behav Med · October 3, 2022
BACKGROUND: Depression and marital discord are characteristic not only of individuals with chronic low back pain (ICPs) but also of their spouses. PURPOSE: We examined actor-partner interdependence models to evaluate associations among depressed affect and ...
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Journal articleTrials · August 26, 2022
BACKGROUND: For patients and their intimate partners, advanced cancer poses significant challenges that can negatively impact both individuals and their relationship. Prior studies have found evidence that couple-based communication skills interventions ca ...
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Journal articlePalliat Support Care · August 2022
OBJECTIVE: Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to improve pain and pain-related symptoms. We examined the feasibility, acceptability, safety, and impact of a 30-min virtual underwater/sea environment (VR Blue) for reducing pain and pain-related symptoms ...
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Journal articleJ Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · July 5, 2022
OBJECTIVES: This research examined main and moderating effects of global depressive symptoms upon in-the-moment associations of pain and affect among individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Effects of depression on short-term change in pain and affect w ...
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Journal articleMed Care · June 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is prevalent and costly; cost-effective nonpharmacological approaches that reduce pain and improve patient functioning are needed. OBJECTIVE: Report the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), compared with usual care, of cogn ...
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Journal articleTrials · May 12, 2022
BACKGROUND: This update describes changes to the Brief Educational Tool to Enhance Recovery (BETTER) trial in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS/DESIGN: The original protocol was published in Trials. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BETTER trial c ...
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Journal articleJ Am Geriatr Soc · February 2022
BACKGROUND: A decline in the ability to perform daily intentions-known as prospective memory-is a key driver of everyday functional impairment in dementia. In the absence of effective pharmacological treatments, there is a need for developing, testing, and ...
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Journal articlePain · February 1, 2022
Trials of cognitive therapy (CT), mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and behavior therapy (BT) suggest that all 3 treatments produce reductions in pain and improvements in physical function, mood, and sleep disturbance in people with chronic pain c ...
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Journal articleJ Palliat Med · January 2022
Background: Pain from advanced cancer can greatly reduce patients' physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Objective: To examine the feasibility and acceptability of a behavioral pain management intervention, Meaning-Centered Pain Coping Skills Trai ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Rheumatol · January 1, 2022
BACKGROUND: Obesity is associated with poor outcomes for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Effective weight management is imperative. Although traditional lifestyle behavioral weight loss programs have demonstrated efficacy for reducing weight, thes ...
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Journal articleAnn Intern Med · January 2022
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is common, disabling, and costly. Few clinical trials have examined cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions embedded in primary care settings to improve chronic pain among those receiving long-term opioid therapy. OBJECTIV ...
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Journal articleJ Cancer Rehabil · 2022
BACKGROUND: Weight gain is common for breast cancer survivors and associated with disease progression, recurrence, and mortality. Traditional behavioral programs fail to address symptoms (i.e., pain, fatigue, distress) experienced by breast cancer survivor ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · September 2021
PURPOSE: Colorectal cancer survivors report pain and psychological distress to be burdensome long-term cancer consequences. Quality cancer survivorship care includes interventions for managing these symptoms. Yet, no studies have tested the efficacy of an ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · August 24, 2021
BACKGROUND: Despite similar outcomes for surgery and conservative care, the number of surgeries to treat rotator cuff related shoulder pain has increased. Interventions designed to enhance treatment expectations for conservative care have been shown to imp ...
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Journal articleInt J Behav Med · August 2021
BACKGROUND: We previously demonstrated that automated, Web-based pain coping skills training (PCST) can reduce osteoarthritis pain. The present secondary analyses examined whether this program also changed coping strategies participants identified for use ...
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Journal articleBMC Rheumatol · June 17, 2021
BACKGROUND: Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) often experience pain and other symptoms that negatively impact quality of life. Interventions that enhance the use of behavioral and cognitive coping strategies may lead to improved outcomes amo ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · June 2021
OBJECTIVE: The assessment of racial differences in pain and function outcome following knee arthroplasty (KA) has received little attention despite very substantial literature exploring a variety of other prognostic factors. The present study was undertake ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · June 2021
CONTEXT: Women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) experience a significant symptom burden, including cancer pain. Yoga is a mind-body discipline that has shown promise for alleviating cancer pain, but few studies have included patients with metastatic dis ...
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Journal articlePalliat Med · May 2021
BACKGROUND: Pain is a major concern among patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers. Evidence suggests that pain coping skills training interventions can improve outcomes, however they have rarely been tested in this population. AIM: To tes ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · March 2021
BACKGROUND: Women with breast cancer in medically underserved areas are particularly vulnerable to persistent pain and disability. Behavioral pain interventions reduce pain and improve outcomes. Cancer patients in medically underserved areas receive limite ...
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Journal articleJ Health Care Poor Underserved · 2021
African Americans are more likely than members of other racial groups to report perceived discrimination in health care settings, and discrimination is linked to depression. Using data from a randomized controlled trial of pain coping skills training (PCST ...
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Journal articleFront Psychol · 2021
Cancer and its treatment pose challenges that affect not only patients but also their significant others, including intimate partners. Accumulating evidence suggests that couples' ability to communicate effectively plays a major role in the psychological a ...
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Journal articlePain Med · December 12, 2020
BACKGROUND: Coordinated efforts between the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs have built the capacity for large-scale clinical research investigating the effectiveness of nonpharmacologic pain ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · December 2020
OBJECTIVE: To qualitatively explore the perceptions and experiences of people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) who used an online automated pain coping skills training program (PCST). METHODS: This was a descriptive qualitative study (based on interpretivist ...
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Journal articlePain Med · September 1, 2020
POPULATION: Comprehensive evaluation of chronic pain in older adults is multifaceted. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: Research on chronic pain in older adults needs to be guided by sound conceptual models. The purpose of this paper is to describe an adaptation of t ...
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Journal articleEur J Pain · September 2020
BACKGROUND: Research on the role of trait versus state characteristics of a variety of measures among persons experiencing pain has been a focus for the past few decades. Studying the trait versus state nature of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) and th ...
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Journal articlePers Relatsh · September 2020
Attachment styles may influence interpersonal strategies used to cope with stress. We examined links between attachment style, communicative behaviors, and physical well-being among 166 couples coping with cancer. Results of actor-partner interdependence m ...
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Journal articlePain · September 1, 2020
The current International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) definition of pain as "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage" was recommended by the Subcomm ...
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Journal articleAm Psychol · September 2020
Chronic pain is a common and costly condition, and some people with chronic pain engage in problematic opioid use. There is a critical need to identify factors underlying this co-occurrence, so that treatment can be targeted to improve outcomes. We propose ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · August 14, 2020
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) disproportionately impacts African Americans compared to Caucasians, including greater pain severity. The Pain Coping Skills Training for African Americans with Osteoarthritis (STAART) study examined a culturally enhanced Pa ...
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Journal articleNeuron · July 8, 2020
Although pain is defined as a sensory and emotional experience, it is traditionally researched and clinically treated separately from emotion. Conceptual and mechanistic relationships between these constructs highlight the need for better understanding of ...
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Journal articleTrials · July 6, 2020
BACKGROUND: Chronic musculoskeletal pain (MSP) affects more than 40% of adults aged 50 years and older and is the leading cause of disability in the USA. Older adults with chronic MSP are at risk for analgesic-related side effects, long-term opioid use, an ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · June 2020
CONTEXT: Some patients with cancer are able to complete psychosocial pain management intervention sessions, and others find it difficult to do so. OBJECTIVES: Conduct a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial (N = 178) that compared delivery form ...
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Journal articlePalliat Support Care · June 2020
OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to obtain patient evaluations of the content, structure, and delivery modality of Meaning-Centered Pain Coping Skills Training (MCPC), a novel psychosocial intervention for patients with advanced cancer and pai ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · May 2020
Breast cancer survivors with type 2 diabetes are at high risk for cancer recurrence, serious health complications, more severe symptoms, psychological distress, and premature death relative to breast cancer survivors without diabetes. Maintaining glycemic ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · March 12, 2020
BACKGROUND: Although education, exercise, and weight loss are recommended for management of knee osteoarthritis, the additional benefits of incorporating weight loss strategies into exercise interventions have not been well investigated. The aim of this st ...
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Journal articlePain · March 2020
Drawing on advances in chronic pain metrics, a simplified Graded Chronic Pain Scale-Revised was developed to differentiate mild, bothersome, and high-impact chronic pain. Graded Chronic Pain Scale-Revised was validated among adult enrollees of 2 health pla ...
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Journal articleTransplant Direct · March 2020
BACKGROUND: Impaired functional capacity and emotional distress are associated with lower quality of life (QoL) and worse clinical outcomes in post lung transplant patients. Strategies to increase physical activity and reduce distress are needed. METHODS: ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · February 2020
CONTEXT: Patients with advanced cancer face a life-limiting condition that brings a high symptom burden that often includes pain, fatigue, and psychological distress. Psychosocial interventions have promise for managing symptoms but need additional tailori ...
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Journal articleJAMA Intern Med · January 1, 2020
IMPORTANCE: Mind-body therapies (MBTs) are emerging as potential tools for addressing the opioid crisis. Knowing whether mind-body therapies may benefit patients treated with opioids for acute, procedural, and chronic pain conditions may be useful for pres ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Res · 2020
BACKGROUND: Improving all aspects of physical function is an important goal of chronic pain management. Few studies follow recent guidelines to comprehensively assess physical function via patient-reported, performance-based, and objective/ambulatory measu ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · November 2019
PURPOSE: Patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) experience high levels of symptoms. Yoga interventions have shown promise for improving cancer symptoms but have rarely been tested in patients with advanced disease. This study examined the acceptabili ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · October 2019
Patient beliefs and perceptions about the causes and meaning of their chronic pain are related to their psychosocial functioning. Beliefs and perceptions about chronic pain held by spouses may also be related to patient functioning. We used a laboratory pr ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · October 2019
OBJECTIVES: This study examined ninety-day and one-year postoperative healthcare utilization and costs following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from the health sector and patient perspectives. DESIGN: This study relied on: 1) patient-reported medical resour ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · September 2019
PURPOSE: Despite more women undergoing treatment for breast cancer and increased survival rates, many women suffer from anxiety and physical symptoms (e.g., pain, fatigue) surrounding diagnosis and surgery. Research investigating the efficacy of psychosoci ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · August 2019
OBJECTIVE: Behavioral cancer pain interventions are efficacious for improving important pain outcomes; yet, traditional in-person delivery limits patient access. This study compared videoconference-delivered mobile health pain coping skills training (mPCST ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · June 2019
OBJECTIVE: Knee arthroplasty (KA) is an effective surgical procedure. However, clinical studies suggest that a considerable number of patients continue to experience substantial pain and functional loss following surgical recovery. We aimed to estimate pai ...
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Journal articleClin Trials · June 2019
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Pain is a major concern of patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers. There is strong evidence that pain coping skills training interventions based on cognitive-behavioral principles can reduce pain severity and pain interference. ...
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Journal articlePain · June 2019
African Americans bear a disproportionate burden of osteoarthritis (OA), but they have been underrepresented in trials of behavioral interventions for pain. This trial examined a culturally tailored pain coping skills training (CST) program, compared to a ...
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Journal articlePain Manag Nurs · June 2019
BACKGROUND: Few investigators have developed and tested nonpharmacological interventions for helping persons with sickle cell disease (SCD) manage persistent pain. AIMS: The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a ...
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Journal articleActa Oncol · May 2019
Background: Persistent breast pain (PBP) is prevalent among breast cancer survivors and has powerful negative psychological consequences. The present study provided a first test of the hypothesis that: (a) pain catastrophizing, (b) heightened perceived ris ...
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Journal articleJ Geriatr Oncol · March 2019
OBJECTIVE: To explore the impact of symptoms on physical function in women on adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer. METHODS: Eligible women were postmenopausal, had hormone receptor positive, stage I-IIIA breast cancer, completed surgery, chemother ...
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Journal articleJ Bone Joint Surg Am · February 6, 2019
BACKGROUND: Pain catastrophizing has been identified as a prognostic indicator of poor outcome following knee arthroplasty. Interventions to address pain catastrophizing, to our knowledge, have not been tested in patients undergoing knee arthroplasty. The ...
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Journal articleFam Cancer · January 2019
First-degree relatives of women with breast cancer may experience increased worry or perceived risk when faced with reminders of their own cancer risk. Worry and risk reminders may include physical symptoms (e.g., persistent breast pain) and caregiving exp ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · January 2019
CONTEXT: Chronic pain, or pain lasting more than three months, is common among cancer survivors, who are often prescribed long-term opioid therapy (LTOT). OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to explore palliative care providers' experiences with managing chronic ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · January 2019
Adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) is used to prevent recurrence and reduce mortality for women with hormone receptor positive breast cancer. Poor adherence to AET is a significant problem and contributes to increased medical costs and mortality. A variety o ...
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Journal articleJ Psychosoc Oncol · 2019
The purpose of this study was to refine and test a mobile-health behavioral cancer pain coping skills training protocol for women with breast cancer and pain from medically underserved areas. Three focus groups (Phase 1) were used to refine the initial pro ...
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Journal articlePain Rep · 2019
INTRODUCTION: Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard when assessing the efficacy of interventions because randomization of treatment assignment minimizes bias in treatment effect estimates. However, if RCTs are not performed wit ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · November 2018
Spouse attributions regarding displays of pain behaviors by their partners with chronic pain may account for subsequent increases in spouse critical/hostile responses toward their partners. People with chronic low back pain (n = 105) and their pain-free sp ...
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Journal articlePain Med · November 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: Cognitive behavioral therapies decrease pain and improve mood and function in people with osteoarthritis. This study assessed the effects of coping strategies on the central processing of knee pain in people with osteoarthritis of the knees. MET ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · September 19, 2018
BACKGROUND: The Pain Coping Skills Training for African Americans with OsteoaRTthritis (STAART) trial is examining the effectiveness of a culturally enhanced pain coping skills training (CST) program for African Americans with osteoarthritis (OA). This dis ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · September 2018
UNLABELLED: Pain catastrophizing (ie, the tendency to focus on and magnify pain sensations and feel helpless in the face of pain) is one of the most important and consistent psychological predictors of the pain experience. The present study examined, in 60 ...
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Journal articlePain · September 2018
This assessor-, therapist-, and participant-blinded randomised controlled trial evaluated the effects of an automated internet-based pain coping skills training (PCST) program before home exercise for people with clinically diagnosed hip osteoarthritis. On ...
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Journal articleAnn Behav Med · July 13, 2018
BACKGROUND: Pain and emotional well-being are complexly associated both globally and in the moment. Emotional regulation strategies may contribute to that complexity by shaping the pain-well-being association. PURPOSE: Using emotional intelligence (EI) as ...
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Journal articleJ Med Internet Res · May 9, 2018
BACKGROUND: Internet-delivered exercise, education, and pain coping skills training is effective for people with knee osteoarthritis, yet it is not clear whether this treatment is better suited to particular subgroups of patients. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · May 2018
OBJECTIVES: Pain-related cognitive content (what people think about pain) and cognitive processes (how people think about pain; what they do with their pain-related thoughts) and their interaction are hypothesized to play distinct roles in patient function ...
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Journal articlePhys Ther · May 1, 2018
There has been growing interest in psychologically oriented pain management over the past 3 to 4 decades, including a 2011 description of psychologically informed practice (PIP) for low back pain. PIP requires a broader focus than traditional biomechanical ...
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Journal articlePalliat Support Care · April 2018
OBJECTIVE: Persistent pain is common and inadequately treated in cancer patients. Behavioral pain interventions are a recommended part of multimodal pain treatments, but they are underused in clinical care due to barriers such as a lack of the resources ne ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · April 2018
PURPOSE: Pain is common for hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients and may be experienced pre-transplant, acutely post-transplant, and for months or years following transplant. HSCT patients with persistent pain may be at risk for poor quality ...
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Journal articleContemporary clinical trials · April 2018
BackgroundChronic pain is one of the most common, disabling, and expensive public health problems in the United States. Interdisciplinary pain management treatments that employ behavioral approaches have been successful in helping patients with ch ...
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Journal articleJMIR Mhealth Uhealth · March 19, 2018
BACKGROUND: Pain is a challenge for patients following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT). OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to develop and test the feasibility, acceptability, and initial efficacy of a Web-based mobile pain coping skills training (mP ...
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Journal articleTransl Behav Med · March 1, 2018
Policy makers have articulated a need for clear, evidence-based guidance to help inform pain policy. Persistent pain is common, expensive, and debilitating, and requires comprehensive assessment and treatment planning. Recently released opioid prescribing ...
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Journal articlePain · February 2018
Chronic pain is associated with elevated negative emotions, and resources needed to adaptively regulate these emotions can be depleted during prolonged pain. Studies of links between pain, function, and negative emotions in people with chronic pain, howeve ...
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Journal articlePain · January 2018
Individuals with chronic pain may experience negative responses from spouse, family, and friends. Responses such as overt criticism and hostility may be associated with worsening pain and function for chronic pain sufferers. We used a laboratory procedure ...
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Journal articleJ Psychosom Res · January 2018
OBJECTIVES: The working alliance predicts improvement following general psychotherapy, but how it operates in brief interventions conducted with medically ill patients is unknown. Also, the role of the working alliance may differ in emotion-focused versus ...
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Journal articleFront Psychol · 2018
Cancer treatment poses significant challenges not just for those diagnosed with the disease but also for their intimate partners. Evidence suggests that couples' communication plays a major role in the adjustment of both individuals and in the quality of t ...
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Journal articleEur J Pain · August 2017
BACKGROUND: Worry can be conceptualized as a cognitive-affective automatic process initiated in order to address uncertainty and potential personal inadequacies that could result in negative outcomes. The purpose of the current study was to develop a measu ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · July 2017
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to test the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a couple-based communication intervention for advanced GI cancer delivered via videoconference. METHODS: Thirty-two couples were randomly assigned to either couples communicatio ...
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Journal articleAnn Behav Med · June 2017
BACKGROUND: Poor sleep quality among people with chronic low back pain appears to be related to worse pain, affect, poor physical function, and pain catastrophizing. The causal direction between poor sleep and pain remains an open question, however, as doe ...
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Journal articleSleep Health · June 2017
OBJECTIVE: To examine racial/ethnic differences in sleep quality and the pain-sleep association among older adults with osteoarthritis of the knee. DESIGN: Baseline interview followed by a 7-day microlongitudinal study using accelerometry and self-reports. ...
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Journal articleAnn Intern Med · April 4, 2017
BACKGROUND: Effective, accessible biopsychosocial treatments are needed to manage chronic knee pain on a population level. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of Internet-delivered, physiotherapist-prescribed home exercise and pain-coping skills train ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · January 2017
OBJECTIVES: This study compared persistent breast pain among women who received breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer and women without a history of breast cancer. METHODS: Breast cancer survivors (n=200) were recruited at their first postsurgical su ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · September 20, 2016
PURPOSE: To provide evidence-based guidance on the optimum management of chronic pain in adult cancer survivors. METHODS: An ASCO-convened expert panel conducted a systematic literature search of studies investigating chronic pain management in cancer surv ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · September 2016
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of pain coping skills training (PCST) and a lifestyle behavioral weight management (BWM) program on inflammatory markers and biomarker associations with pain and function in the OA LIFE study. METHOD: Serum samples wer ...
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Journal articlePain · September 2016
Moderator analyses are reported for posttreatment outcomes in a large, randomized, controlled effectiveness trial for chronic pain for hip and knee osteoarthritis (N = 256). Pain Coping Skills Training, a form of cognitive behavioral therapy, was compared ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · August 23, 2016
BACKGROUND: African Americans bear a disproportionate burden of osteoarthritis (OA), with higher prevalence rates, more severe pain, and more functional limitations. One key barrier to addressing these disparities has been limited engagement of African Ame ...
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Journal articlePsychother Res · July 2016
OBJECTIVE: Persistent low back pain (PLBP) is associated with vulnerability to depression. PLBP frequently requires major changes in occupation and lifestyle, which can lead to a sense of failing to attain one's personal goals (self-discrepancy). METHOD: W ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · May 2016
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether a 12-week physical therapist-delivered combined pain coping skills training (PCST) and exercise (PCST/exercise) is more efficacious and cost effective than either treatment alone for knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: This ...
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Journal articleJ Am Coll Radiol · May 2016
PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of guided meditation and music interventions on patient anxiety, pain, and fatigue during imaging-guided breast biopsy. METHODS: After giving informed consent, 121 women needing percutaneous imaging-guided breast biopsy were ...
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Journal articleBMC Geriatr · April 19, 2016
BACKGROUND: Restricted physical activity commonly occurs following acute musculoskeletal pain in older adults and may influence long-term outcomes. We sought to examine the relationship between restricted physical activity after motor vehicle collision (MV ...
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Journal articleAnn Emerg Med · February 2016
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Motor vehicle crashes are the second most common form of trauma among older adults. We seek to describe the incidence, risk factors, and consequences of persistent pain among older adults evaluated in the emergency department (ED) after a ...
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Journal articleHealth Psychol · January 2016
OBJECTIVE: To determine the degree to which anger arousal and anger regulation (expression, inhibition) in the daily lives of people with chronic pain were related to spouse support, criticism, and hostility as perceived by patients and as reported by spou ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · January 2016
PURPOSE: We examined the effects of an enhanced informal caregiver training (Enhanced-CT) protocol in cancer symptom and caregiver stress management to caregivers of hospitalized cancer patients. METHODS: We recruited adult patients in oncology units and t ...
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Journal articlePain Med · January 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Pain symptoms are common among Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans, many of whom continue to experience persistent pain symptoms despite multiple pharmacological interventions. Preclinical data suggest that neurosteroids such as allopr ...
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Journal articlePain Med · January 2016
OBJECTIVE: To define clinical phenotypes of postamputation pain and identify markers of risk for the development of chronic pain. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of military service members enrolled 3-18 months after traumatic amputation injury. SETTING: Mil ...
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Journal articleBehav Sleep Med · 2016
This article considers methodology for developing an education-only control group and proposes a simple approach to designing rigorous and well-accepted control groups. This approach is demonstrated in a large randomized trial. The Lifestyles trial (n = 36 ...
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Journal articleValue Health · 2016
OBJECTIVES: Neuropathic pain (NP) is a consequence of many chronic conditions. This study aimed to develop an unidimensional NP scale with scores that represent levels of NP and distinguish between individuals with NP and non-NP conditions. METHODS: A cand ...
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Journal articlePain Res Treat · 2016
Psychosocial pain management interventions are efficacious for cancer pain but are underutilized. Recent advances in mobile health (mHealth) technologies provide new opportunities to decrease barriers to access psychosocial pain management interventions. T ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · December 2015
CONTEXT: Prior cross-sectional studies have reported greater pain intensity among persistent smokers compared with nonsmokers or former smokers; yet, few prospective studies have examined how smoking abstinence affects pain intensity. OBJECTIVES: To determ ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · November 2015
UNLABELLED: The Communal Coping Model characterizes pain catastrophizing as a coping tactic whereby pain expression elicits assistance and empathic responses from others. Married couples (N = 105 couples; 1 spouse with chronic low back pain) completed elec ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · October 2015
CONTEXT: Pain coping skills training (PCST) interventions have shown efficacy for reducing pain and providing other benefits in patients with cancer. However, their reach is often limited because of a variety of barriers (e.g., travel, physical burden, cos ...
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Journal articlePhys Ther · October 2015
BACKGROUND: Persistent hip pain in older people is usually due to hip osteoarthritis (OA), a major cause of pain, disability, and psychological dysfunction. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether adding an Internet-based pain coping sk ...
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Journal articleBreast · October 2015
PURPOSE: To explore how symptoms and psychosocial factors are related to intentional and unintentional non-adherent medication taking behaviors. METHODS: Included were postmenopausal women with hormone receptor positive, stage I-IIIA breast cancer, who had ...
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Journal articleAm J Clin Oncol · October 2015
OBJECTIVE: To explore biopsychosocial factors (beliefs, depression, catastrophizing cytokines) in individuals newly diagnosed with lung cancer and no pain to determine their relationship at diagnosis and across time and to determine whether these factors c ...
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Journal articleComplement Ther Med · August 2015
OBJECTIVE: This was a secondary data analysis of a cluster-randomized clinical trial that tested the efficacy of a 20-week Sun-style Tai Chi (TC) program in reducing pain in community-dwelling elders with cognitive impairment and knee osteoarthritis (OA). ...
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Journal articleHealth Psychol · May 2015
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the degree to which patient anger arousal and behavioral anger regulation (expression, inhibition) occurring in the course of daily life was related to patient pain and function as rated by patients a ...
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Journal articlePain · May 2015
Osteoarthritis (OA) places a significant burden on worldwide public health because of the large and growing number of people affected by OA and its associated pain and disability. Pain coping skills training (PCST) is an evidence-based intervention targeti ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · May 2015
The objective was to develop a set of "best practices" for use as a primer for those interested in entering the clinical trials field for lifestyle diet and/or exercise interventions in osteoarthritis (OA), and as a set of recommendations for experienced c ...
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Journal articleInt J Behav Med · February 2015
PURPOSE: The purposes of this study are to examine the associations between pain coping strategies and daily diary-based pain measures and to determine whether these associations differed by race (African American and Caucasian). METHODS: Primary care pati ...
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Journal articlePain Manag · 2015
Virtual reality (VR) technologies have been successfully applied to acute pain interventions and recent reviews have suggested their potential utility in chronic pain. The current review highlights the specific relevance of VR interactive gaming technologi ...
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Journal articleJ Med Internet Res · December 19, 2014
Evidence supporting the efficacy of behavioral interventions based on principles of cognitive behavioral therapies has spurred interest in translating these interventions for delivery via the Internet. However, the benefits of this dissemination method can ...
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Journal articleAnn Behav Med · December 2014
BACKGROUND: In addition to patient self-efficacy, spouse confidence in patient efficacy may also independently predict patient health outcomes. However, the potential influence of spouse confidence has received little research attention. PURPOSE: The curre ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · October 2014
PURPOSE: This study examined the relationships between physical symptoms, self-efficacy for coping with symptoms, and functional, emotional, and social well-being in women who were taking adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer. METHODS: One hundred a ...
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Journal articlePhys Ther · October 2014
BACKGROUND: Physical therapists are well established as providers of treatments for common, painful, and disabling conditions, such as knee osteoarthritis (OA). Thus, they are well placed to deliver treatments that integrate physical and psychosocial eleme ...
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Journal articlePsychosom Med · October 2014
OBJECTIVE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and reduced quality of life (QoL). Novel interventions are needed to improve outcomes in COPD patients. The present study assessed the effects of a ...
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Journal articleJ Fam Psychol · October 2014
Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer can experience an array of psychosocial difficulties; however, social support, particularly from a spouse, has been shown to have a protective function during this time. This study examined the ways in which a wom ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · September 2014
CONTEXT: Holding back, or withholding discussion of disease-related thoughts and emotions, is associated with negative outcomes including lower quality of life, diminished well-being, and relational distress. For patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell ...
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Journal articlePain · September 2014
A multisite, randomized, controlled clinical effectiveness trial was conducted for osteoarthritis patients with chronic pain of the knee or hip. Adult health nurse practitioners provided a 10-session intervention, pain coping skills training (PCST), in pat ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · September 2014
BACKGROUND: We previously developed and piloted a telephone-based intimacy enhancement (IE) intervention addressing sexual concerns of colorectal cancer patients and their partners in an uncontrolled study. The current study tested the feasibility, accepta ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · August 13, 2014
BACKGROUND: Persistent knee pain in people over 50 years of age is often attributable to knee osteoarthritis (OA), a common joint condition that causes physical and psychological dysfunction. Exercise and pain coping skills training (PCST) can help reduce ...
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Journal articlePain · August 2014
UNLABELLED: In a primary care population of 367 older adults (aged ⩾60 years) with osteoarthritis (OA) pain and insomnia, we examined the relationship between short-term improvement in sleep and long-term sleep, pain, and fatigue outcomes through secondary ...
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Journal articleJ Sex Med · August 2014
INTRODUCTION: There is a significant gap in research regarding the readability and comprehension of existing sexual function measures. Patient-reported outcome measures may use terms not well understood by respondents with low literacy. AIM: This study aim ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Rheumatol · August 2014
BACKGROUND: Obese rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients have higher levels of pain, disability, and disease activity than do nonobese patients with RA. Patients' health-related thoughts about arthritis and weight may be important to consider in obese patients ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · August 2014
OBJECTIVE: Two psychological interventions for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are cognitive-behavioral coping skills training (CST) and written emotional disclosure (WED). These approaches have developed independently, and their combination may be more effectiv ...
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Journal articleJ Am Coll Radiol · July 2014
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate pain experienced during imaging-guided core-needle breast biopsies and to identify factors that predict increased pain perception during procedures. METHODS: In this institutional review board-approved, HI ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · June 2014
OBJECTIVE: Pathological gaits have been shown to limit transfer between potential (PE) and kinetic (KE) energy during walking, which can increase locomotor costs. The purpose of this study was to examine whether energy exchange would be limited in people w ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · June 1, 2014
This review examines evidence for psychological factors that affect pain across the cancer continuum from diagnosis through treatment and long-term survivorship or end of life. Evidence is convincing that emotional distress, depression, anxiety, uncertaint ...
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Journal articlePhys Ther · February 2014
BACKGROUND: The importance of the biopsychosocial model in assessment and management of chronic musculoskeletal conditions is recognized. Physical therapists have been encouraged to develop psychologically informed practice. Little is known about the proce ...
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Journal articleQual Life Res · February 2014
PURPOSE: The assessment of pain sensation and quality is a key component in understanding the experience of individuals with chronic pain. This study evaluated the factor structure of the patient-reported outcome measurement information system (PROMIS) pai ...
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Journal articlePain Res Manag · 2014
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) patients who are overweight or obese report higher levels of pain compared with their normal-weight OA counterparts. Evidence suggests that overweight or obese OA patients also experience pain relief from eating foods high i ...
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Journal articleNeuroimage Clin · 2014
Chronic pain is a complex physiological and psychological phenomenon. Implicit learning mechanisms contribute to the development of chronic pain and to persistent changes in the central nervous system. We hypothesized that these central abnormalities can b ...
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Journal articlePain · December 2013
Pain behaviors that are maintained beyond the acute stage after injury can contribute to subsequent psychosocial and physical disability. Critical to the study of pain behaviors is the availability of psychometrically sound pain behavior measures. In this ...
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Journal articlePain · December 2013
Chronic musculoskeletal pain can strain marriages, perhaps even to the point of engendering spouse criticism and hostility directed toward patients. Such negative spouse responses may have detrimental effects on patient well-being. While results of cross-s ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · December 2013
UNLABELLED: Several studies have reported reduced cerebral gray matter (GM) volume or density in chronic pain conditions, but there is limited research on the plasticity of the human cortex in response to psychological interventions. We investigated GM cha ...
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Journal articlePain · October 2013
The current study applied a model of pain communication to examine the distinction between verbal and nonverbal pain expression in their prediction of punishing, empathic, and solicitous spouse responses to patient pain. It was hypothesized that on days wh ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · September 2013
CONTEXT: Pain is a common and complex experience for individuals who live with multiple sclerosis (MS) and it interferes with physical, psychological, and social function. A valid and reliable tool for quantifying observed pain behaviors in MS is critical ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · September 2013
UNLABELLED: The assessment of persistent pain often relies on recalling and then summarizing the entire pain experience using a single rating. Newer methodologies, such as the Original Pain Recall Assessment, ask people to recall the pain they experienced ...
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Journal articlePain · September 2013
Although chronic pain has been linked to poorer psychosocial well-being in the spouse, the extent to which patient pain affects spouse sleep is unknown. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis that greater daily knee pain would be associate ...
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Journal articleBr J Anaesth · July 2013
Interest in the use of psychosocial interventions to help older adults manage pain is growing. In this article, we review this approach. The first section reviews the conceptual background for psychosocial interventions with a special emphasis on the biops ...
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Journal articleJ Am Geriatr Soc · June 2013
OBJECTIVES: To assess whether older persons with osteoarthritis (OA) pain and insomnia receiving cognitive-behavioral therapy for pain and insomnia (CBT-PI), a cognitive-behavioral pain coping skills intervention (CBT-P), and an education-only control (EOC ...
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Journal articleAnn Behav Med · April 2013
BACKGROUND: Physical activity is critical for the management of knee osteoarthritis, and the spouse may play a role in encouraging or discouraging physical activity. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine four types of spousal influence-spouses' ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · April 2013
CONTEXT: Because Tai Chi (TC) is beneficial to elders without cognitive impairment (CI), it also may benefit elders with CI. But elders with CI have generally been excluded from TC studies because many measurement tools require verbal reports that some eld ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · April 2013
OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to evaluate the existing literature on psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of chronic hepatitis C viral (HCV) infection and antiviral treatment; provide the state of the behavioral science in areas that presently hinder HC ...
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Journal articleKnee · March 2013
BACKGROUND: Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is associated with a number of physical and psychological impairments. Unfortunately, very few treatment strategies are capable of addressing both types of impairments concurrently. We performed a pilot, randomiz ...
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Journal articleJ Sex Med · February 2013
INTRODUCTION: We describe the development and validation of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System(®) Sexual Function and Satisfaction (PROMIS(®) SexFS; National Institutes of Health) measures, version 1.0, for cancer populations. AIM ...
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Journal articleAm J Health Promot · 2013
PURPOSE: When a patient is diagnosed with lung cancer, members of his/her social network may be more likely to engage in smoking cessation efforts. Proactive telephone counseling combined with a tailored self-directed intervention may be more effective at ...
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Journal articleIEEE Comput Graph Appl · 2013
Using widely accessible VR technologies, researchers have implemented a series of multimodal spatial interfaces and virtual environments. The results demonstrate the degree to which we can now use low-cost (for example, mobile-phone based) VR environments ...
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Journal articleJ Psychosoc Oncol · 2013
Adjuvant endocrine therapy improves overall survival for women with breast cancer. However, side effects may compromise patients' quality of life (QOL). This study examined how two communication variables (self-efficacy for symptom communication [SE] and h ...
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Journal articleTransl Behav Med · December 1, 2012
Chronic pain affects at least 116 million adults in the USA and exacts a tremendous cost in suffering and lost productivity. While health systems offer specialized pain services, the primary care setting is where most patients seek and receive care for pai ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · October 2012
PURPOSE: This study examined attachment styles in patients with lung cancer and their spouses and associations between attachment styles and patient and spouse adjustment. METHODS: One hundred twenty-seven patients with early stage lung cancer completed me ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · September 2012
OBJECTIVE: To determine how self-efficacy for pain control and pain catastrophizing, both potentially modifiable pain coping cognitions, are related to pain, stiffness, fatigue, and psychological distress in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) ...
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Journal articleAm J Mens Health · September 2012
Research examining psychosocial functioning in African American prostate cancer survivors has been limited, in spite of documented higher mortality from prostate cancer and worse long-term physical and emotional outcomes from prostate cancer treatment repo ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · August 20, 2012
BACKGROUND: Approximately 20% of patients report persistent and disabling pain following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) despite an apparently normally functioning prosthesis. One potential risk factor for unexplained persistent pain is high levels of pain c ...
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Journal articleIntensive Care Med · August 2012
PURPOSE: Survivors of acute lung injury (ALI) and their informal caregivers have difficulty coping with the physical and emotional challenges of recovery from critical illness. We aimed to develop and pilot test a telephone-based coping skills training int ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · August 2012
PURPOSE: We recently reported that a partner-assisted emotional disclosure intervention for gastrointestinal cancer led to improvements in relationship quality and intimacy for couples in which the patient initially reported higher levels of holding back f ...
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Journal articleEur J Pain · August 2012
This study examined the comparative efficacy of three interventions: a spouse-assisted coping skills training protocol for patients undergoing a multidisciplinary pain management programme (SA-MPMP), conventional patient-oriented multidisciplinary pain man ...
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Journal articleBMC Musculoskelet Disord · July 24, 2012
BACKGROUND: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent chronic musculoskeletal condition with no cure. Pain is the primary symptom and results from a complex interaction between structural changes, physical impairments and psychological factors. Much evidence ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · July 2012
Six weekly sessions of group cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia and osteoarthritis pain (CBT-PI), and for osteoarthritis pain alone (CBT-P) were compared to an education only control (EOC). Basic education about pain and sleep was comparable, so EOC ...
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Journal articlePain · 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 ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · June 2012
OBJECTIVE: Fear of movement has important clinical implications for individuals with osteoarthritis (OA). This study aimed to establish a brief fear of movement scale for use in OA. Items from the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia (TSK) were examined. METHODS: ...
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Journal articleJ Marital Fam Ther · June 2012
Partner-assisted emotional disclosure is a couple-based intervention designed to help patients disclose cancer-related concerns to their spouses-partners. We previously found that, compared with an education/support control condition, partner-assisted emot ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · April 2012
CONTEXT: Self-compassion entails qualities such as kindness and understanding toward oneself in difficult circumstances and may influence adjustment to persistent pain. Self-compassion may be a particularly influential factor in pain adjustment for obese i ...
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Journal articleJ Marital Fam Ther · April 2012
Previous research indicates that men are affected when their female partners have breast cancer. However, little is known about what predicts men's psychological well-being in this context. The current investigation involved couples in which the woman had ...
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Journal articlePain · April 2012
This report examines day-to-day variability in rheumatology patients' ratings of pain and related quality-of-life variables as well as predictors of that variability. Data from 2 studies were used. The hypothesis was that greater psychological distress (i. ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · March 10, 2012
PURPOSE: This prospective study examined the factors that predicted sustained adherence to surveillance mammography in women treated for breast cancer. METHODS: Breast cancer survivors (N = 204) who were undergoing surveillance mammography completed questi ...
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Journal articleTransl Behav Med · March 2012
Pharmacological and interventional pain medicine treatments are emphasized in the routine treatment of chronic pain despite strong evidence for the efficacy and safety of behavioral approaches. Most medical professionals have not incorporated behavioral pa ...
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Journal articleJ Sex Marital Ther · 2012
No studies have tested interventions addressing the sexual concerns of colorectal cancer patients and their partners. The authors reported findings from a pilot feasibility study of a novel telephone-based intimacy enhancement protocol that addresses the i ...
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Journal article · December 1, 2011
The past 60 years has witnessed major changes in the way that pain is conceptualized and treated. In the 1950s, pain was generally conceptualized using a sensory model that maintained that pain is a simple sensory event that warned of tissue damage. Treatm ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · November 2011
UNLABELLED: There is growing interest in the role that positive aspects of psychological adjustment, such as pain acceptance, hope, and optimism, may play in explaining adjustment in persons suffering from persistent pain. This study conducted in obese pat ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Psychol · September 2011
OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: Research on emotion and pain has burgeoned. We review the last decade's literature, focusing on links between emotional processes and persistent pain. RESULTS: Neurobiological research documents the neural processes that distinguish a ...
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Journal articleCurr Pain Headache Rep · August 2011
Cancer pain is a complex and multidimensional experience that affects and is affected by psychological and social factors. This article reviews recent research that points to a number of key psychosocial factors associated with pain, including psychologica ...
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Journal articleContemp Clin Trials · July 2011
BACKGROUND: This report describes the characteristics associated with successful enrollment of smokers in the social networks (i.e., family and close friends) of patients with lung cancer into a smoking cessation intervention. METHODS: Lung cancer patients ...
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Journal articleArch Phys Med Rehabil · June 2011
OBJECTIVES: To (1) describe a behavioral intervention designed for patients with elevated pain catastrophizing who are scheduled for knee arthroplasty, and (2) use a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the potential efficacy of the intervention on pain s ...
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Journal articleRes Nurs Health · June 2011
Behavioral cues are believed to be useful to identify pain among elders who may be experiencing pain but unable to express it. To examine this assumption, we recruited 192 elders who could verbally express pain to determine whether regression models combin ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Oncol · May 20, 2011
524 Background: Many breast cancer patients do not adhere to prescribed adjuvant hormone therapy. This pilot study explored symptom experiences and medication adherence behaviors. METHODS: Eligible women were postmenopausal, had hormone receptor positive s ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · May 2011
OBJECTIVES: This study examined predictors of treatment expectation among osteoarthritis (OA) patients in a multisite clinical trial of pain coping skills training (CST). METHODS: Patients (N=171) completed a pretreatment assessment battery that asked ques ...
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Journal articlePain · April 2011
Non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) is a common and distressing condition. Prior studies suggest that psychotropic medication or pain coping skills training (CST) may benefit NCCP patients. To our knowledge, no clinical trials have examined the separate and comb ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · April 2011
OBJECTIVE: Cancer and treatments for cancer affect specific aspects of sexual functioning and intimacy; however, limited qualitative work has been done in diverse cancer populations. As part of an effort to improve measurement of self-reported sexual funct ...
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Journal articleAnn Behav Med · April 2011
This paper discusses trends and future directions in behavioral medicine. It is divided into three sections. The first briefly reviews key developments in the history of behavioral medicine. The second section highlights trends and future directions in pai ...
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Journal articleTransl Behav Med · March 2011
The advancement of translational behavioral medicine will require that we discover new methods of managing large volumes of data from disparate sources such as disease surveillance systems, public health systems, and health information systems containing p ...
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Journal articleLung Cancer · February 2011
Researchers have shown that coping style is related to pain and adjustment in people with chronic illness. This study was the first to examine how coping style related to pain, pain coping strategies, and depression in lung cancer outpatients. We conducted ...
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Journal articleCompr Psychiatry · 2011
This article examines temporal relationships between negative emotions and pain in a cohort of 33 patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain enrolled in a telephone-based relapse prevention program (Therapeutic Interactive Voice Response [TIVR]), after 11 ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · January 2011
CONTEXT: Lung cancer is one of the most common cancers in the United States and is associated with high levels of symptoms, including pain, fatigue, shortness of breath, and psychological distress. Caregivers and patients are adversely affected. However, p ...
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Journal articleHealth Psychol · January 2011
OBJECTIVE: This study examined whether the relationship between daily spousal support and daily psychological and physical outcomes varied as a function of level of breast cancer related concern (stress buffering model). DESIGN: Ninety-five women with earl ...
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Journal article · December 1, 2010
Chronic pain of non-malignant etiology is a significant problem. Chronic non-malignant pain is typically defined as pain that persists for 3 months or longer and that is non-life threatening [1, 2]. Among the most common chronic pain conditions are chronic ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · December 2010
UNLABELLED: This paper examines whether a telephone-based, automated maintenance enhancement program can help to reduce opioid and nonsteroidal anti-inflamatory drugs (NSAID) analgesic use in patients with chronic pain. Following 11 weeks of group cognitiv ...
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Journal articleSleep · November 2010
STUDY OBJECTIVES: using a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral model of insomnia and a daily process approach, this study was conducted to examine the contribution of cancer symptoms and dysfunctional sleep related thoughts and behaviors to the process of in ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Epidemiol · November 2010
OBJECTIVE: A recently published instrument (PRECIS) was designed to assist investigative teams in understanding the various design decisions that need to be made regarding pragmatic vs. explanatory trials. Our team used this instrument during an investigat ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · October 2010
OBJECTIVE: Cancer and its treatments disturb sleep-wake functioning; however, there is little information available on the characteristics and consequences of sleep problems associated with cancer. As part of an effort to improve measurement of sleep-wake ...
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Journal articlePain Med · October 2010
OBJECTIVE: Nearly half of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans experience continued pain post-deployment. Several investigations report analgesic effects of allopregnanolone and other neurosteroids in animal models, but few data are ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · October 2010
UNLABELLED: Relationships may influence adjustment to chronic pain conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We examined how both marital status and marital adjustment were related to pain, physical disability, and psychological disability in 255 adult ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · September 2010
PURPOSE: Although sexual concerns have been examined in breast cancer (BC), these concerns remain understudied and undertreated for patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. Objectives were to: (1) assess sexual concerns in GI cancer patients compared wi ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · August 2010
CONTEXT: Hope may be important in explaining the variability in how patients adjust to lung cancer. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine how hope, as conceptualized by Snyder et al., is associated with multiple indices of adjustment to lung can ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · July 2010
INTRODUCTION: Although cancer treatment commonly has a negative impact on sexual functioning, sexual concerns are still largely undertreated in routine cancer care. The medical model that guides current approaches to sexual care in cancer does not adequate ...
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Journal articlePain · July 2010
This paper describes the psychometric properties of the PROMIS-pain interference (PROMIS-PI) bank. An initial candidate item pool (n=644) was developed and evaluated based on the review of existing instruments, interviews with patients, and consultation wi ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · June 2010
UNLABELLED: This study compared recalled average pain, assessed at the end of the day, with the average of real-time pain ratings recorded throughout the day among patients with osteoarthritis (OA). Participants (N = 157) with hand, hip, or knee OA complet ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · June 2010
OBJECTIVE: To examine the degree to which disease severity and domains of self-efficacy (pain, function, and other symptoms) explain pain and functioning in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. METHODS: Patients (n = 263) completed the Arthritis Impact Meas ...
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Journal articleNat Rev Rheumatol · April 2010
Arthritis pain has traditionally been evaluated from a biomedical perspective, but there is increasing evidence that psychological factors have an important role in patients' adjustment to arthritis pain. The evolution of pain theories has led to the devel ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · February 2010
OBJECTIVE: This study examined factors underlying racial differences in pain and function among patients with hip and/or knee osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: Participants were n=491 African Americans and Caucasians enrolled in a clinical trial of telephone-b ...
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Journal articleOncologist · 2010
Integrative oncology is the synthesis of mainstream cancer care and evidence-based complementary therapies. Complementary strategies include massage therapies, acupuncture, fitness, and mind-body techniques, which take advantage of the reciprocal relations ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · January 2010
UNLABELLED: The Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) is a widely used instrument to characterize distinct psychosocial subgroups of patients with chronic pain: Adaptive (AC), Dysfunctional (DYS), and Interpersonally Distressed (ID). To date, several quest ...
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Journal article · December 1, 2009
Persistent, disease-related pain is a challenge not only for patients who experience it, but also for their loved ones. There is growing interest in involving partners and caregivers in pain management efforts. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss fac ...
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Journal articleAging Clin Exp Res · December 2009
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: This study examines racial differences in gait mechanics in persons with knee osteoarthritis and the influence of anthropometrics, educational level, radiographic disease severity (rOA), and self-report measures of pain and disability ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · December 2009
INTRODUCTION: Cancer pain is identified as a multidimensional experience, but relatively few brief instruments are available for assessing the complex pain-related experiences of terminal cancer patients in Taiwan. The purposes of this study were to (1) tr ...
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Journal articleArch 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. ...
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Journal articlePain · November 2009
The measurement of pain behavior is a key component of the assessment of persons with chronic pain; however, few self-reported pain behavior instruments have been developed. We developed a pain behavior item bank as part of the Patient-Reported Outcome Mea ...
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Journal articleOsteoarthritis Cartilage · October 2009
OBJECTIVE: This study examined within-day osteoarthritis (OA)-related pain patterns and associated patient characteristics. METHODS: Participants with physician diagnoses and self-reported symptoms of hand (N=40), hip (N=32), and knee (N=85) OA recorded pa ...
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Journal articlePsychosom Med · October 2009
OBJECTIVE: To examine the contributions of chest pain, anxiety, and pain catastrophizing to disability in 97 patients with noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) and to test whether chest pain and anxiety were related indirectly to greater disability via pain catast ...
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Journal articleQual Life Res · October 2009
PURPOSE: One goal of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) is to develop a measure of sexual functioning that broadens the definition of sexual activity and incorporates items that reflect constructs identified as important ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · October 2009
UNLABELLED: Although there has been a rapid increase in Latino populations in the United States over the last 10 years, health research with Latino cultural groups is sorely lacking. In the area of pain-coping research, one consequence of the limited resea ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · October 2009
GOAL OF WORK: Breast cancer survivors have limited options for the treatment of hot flashes and related symptoms. Further, therapies widely used to prevent recurrence in survivors, such as tamoxifen, tend to induce or exacerbate menopausal symptoms. The ai ...
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Journal articleCancer · September 15, 2009
BACKGROUND: For patients with cancer who are married or in an intimate relationship, their relationships with their partners play a critical role in their adaptation to illness. However, cancer patients and their partners often have difficulty in talking w ...
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Journal articleCurr Opin Rheumatol · September 2009
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present paper reviews recent psychosocial research in the area of osteoarthritis pain. First, the review highlights studies of psychosocial factors that can influence osteoarthritis pain. Next, research testing the efficacy of psycho ...
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Journal articleJ Psychosom Res · July 2009
OBJECTIVE: Although the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease (ENRICHD) treatment was designed to include individual therapy and cognitive behavioral group training for patients with depression and/or low perceived social support, only 31% of treate ...
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Journal articleJ 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 ...
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Journal articlePain · May 2009
The primary objective of the present study was to examine the role of pain-related psychological factors in predicting pain and disability following Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA). The study sample consisted of 75 (46 women, 29 men) individuals with osteoar ...
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Journal articleClin Trials · April 2009
BACKGROUND: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a progressive illness characterized by airflow obstruction and dyspnea that afflicts over 12 million people and represents a leading cause of death in the United States. Not surprisingly, COPD is ...
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Journal articleCancer · March 15, 2009
For this report, the authors described the initial activities of the Cancer Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)-Sexual Function domain group, which is part of the National Institutes of Health Roadmap Initiative to develop bri ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · March 2009
OBJECTIVE: Although women's breast cancer affects both women and their male partners, as well as their relationships, few interventions have been developed to work with couples confronting breast cancer. The current investigation presents the pilot results ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · March 2009
UNLABELLED: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of smoking status after a diagnosis of lung cancer on reported pain levels. We conducted a telephone survey of patients with lung cancer identified from 4 participating sites between Septembe ...
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Journal articleJ Women Aging · 2009
Osteoarthritis of the knee is seen more frequently in females than males. However, few studies have examined the interplay of gender, gait mechanics, pain, and disability in persons with osteoarthritis. This study examines the influence of anthropometrics, ...
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Journal articlePain Res Manag · 2009
INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to replicate and validate the empirically derived subgroup classification based on the Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) in a sample of highly disabled fibromyalgia (FM) patients. Second, it examined how the identi ...
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Journal articleMed Clin North Am · January 2009
This article delineates the characteristic symptoms and signs associated with OA and how they can be used to make the clinical diagnosis. The predominant symptom in most patients is pain. The remainder of the article focuses on what we know causes pain in ...
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Journal articleJ 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 ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · October 2008
OBJECTIVES: This preliminary study examined aspects of pain communication (self-efficacy for pain communication and holding back from discussing pain and arthritis-related concerns) among patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and their partners, and associatio ...
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Journal articleJ Am Geriatr Soc · September 2008
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the validity of traditional pain behaviors (guarding, bracing, rubbing, grimacing, and sighing) in persons with and without cognitive impairment and chronic low back pain (CLBP). DESIGN: Prospective observational study. SETTING: Out ...
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Journal articleRheum Dis Clin North Am · August 2008
Symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA) causes substantial physical and psychosocial disability. This article delineates the characteristic symptoms and signs associated with OA and how they can be used to make the clinical diagnosis. The predominant symptom in mo ...
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Journal articlePain · July 15, 2008
This study examined self-efficacy for managing pain, symptoms, and function in patients with lung cancer and their caregivers, and associations between self-efficacy and patient and caregiver adjustment. One hundred and fifty-two patients with early stage ...
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Journal articleJ Psychosom Res · July 2008
OBJECTIVE: Patients with end-stage lung disease (ESLD) experience significant decrements in quality of life (QOL). Although coping strategies are related to QOL in patients with ESLD, the extent to which specific native lung disease moderates this relation ...
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Journal articlePain · July 2008
Emotional disclosure by writing or talking about stressful life experiences improves health status in non-clinical populations, but its success in clinical populations, particularly rheumatoid arthritis (RA), has been mixed. In this randomized, controlled ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · July 2008
This study used Ward's minimum variance hierarchical cluster analysis to identify homogeneous subgroups of rheumatoid arthritis patients suffering from chronic pain who exhibited similar pain behavior patterns during a videotaped behavior sample. Ninety-tw ...
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Journal articlePain · 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 ...
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Journal articleFam Syst Health · June 1, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a couple-oriented education and support intervention for osteoarthritis was more efficacious than a similar patient-oriented intervention in terms of enhancing spouses' support of patients and their positi ...
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Journal articleRheum Dis Clin North Am · May 2008
This article provides an overview of self-management interventions used to manage pain in patients who have arthritis. The article is divided in two major sections. The first section reviews psychologic interventions used to manage arthritis pain, includin ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · March 2008
UNLABELLED: Living with persistent pain is a complex experience. Based on clinical observations, persistent pain is often described as a stressful life event that has significantly altered how patients view themselves and the world around them. The Central ...
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Journal articleCurr Opin Anaesthesiol · February 2008
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Pain after thoracic surgery may persist for up to a year or longer in as many as 50% of patients undergoing lung resection. There is currently no specific therapy, and our ability to predict who will develop a persistent pain syndrome is ...
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Journal articlePain · February 2008
We developed Therapeutic Interactive Voice Response (TIVR) as an automated, telephone-based tool for maintenance enhancement following group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for chronic pain. TIVR has four components: a daily self-monitoring questionnair ...
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Journal articlePain 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 ...
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Journal articlePain · September 2007
Individual differences in the regulation of affect are known to impact pain and other symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis. However, no studies have yet used a rigorous daily diary methodology to address the question of whether current pain is reduced when pos ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · May 2007
UNLABELLED: There has been growing interest among researchers and clinicians in the role of ambivalence over emotional expression (AEE) in adjustment to chronic illness. Because of the salience of anger in chronic low back pain, this condition provides a p ...
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Journal articleHealth Psychol · May 2007
CONTEXT: The psychosocial impact of arthritis can be profound. There is growing interest in psychosocial interventions for managing pain and disability in arthritis patients. OBJECTIVE: This meta-analysis reports on the efficacy of psychosocial interventio ...
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Journal articleRehabilitation Psychology · May 1, 2007
Objective: To determine whether a couple-oriented intervention for osteoarthritis (OA) was more efficacious than a patient-oriented intervention and whether each intervention was more efficacious than usual medical care. Research Design: 242 older adults w ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · March 2007
Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) remains a terminal illness for which major treatment advances are slow to appear, and hence it is crucial that effective palliative interventions be developed to reduce the cancer-related symptoms of women with this condition ...
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Journal articleCancer · January 15, 2007
African American men experience worse prostate cancer outcomes compared with those of Caucasian men, not only in incidence and mortality rates, but also in coping with the side effects of treatment. Unfortunately, African American men have been significant ...
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Journal articlePsychosom Med · 2007
OBJECTIVE: To assess the prospective relationship between spiritual experiences and health in a sample of patients surviving an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) with depression or low social support. METHODS: A subset of 503 patients participating in the ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · January 2007
This paper represents an expert-based consensus statement on pain assessment among older adults. It is intended to provide recommendations that will be useful for both researchers and clinicians. Contributors were identified based on literature prominence ...
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Journal articleOncol Nurs Forum · January 2007
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To compare the effects of partner-delivered foot reflexology and usual care plus attention on patients' perceived pain and anxiety. DESIGN: The experimental pretest/post-test design included patient-partner dyads randomly assigned to an ...
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Journal articlePsychopharmacol Bull · 2007
How can cognitive-behavioral therapy benefit patients with persistent pain? The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches to persistent pain. The review is divided into four sections. In the first section ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · September 2006
UNLABELLED: Pain coping skills training (PCST) has been shown to produce immediate improvements in pain and disability in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, some patients have difficulty maintaining these gains. This study compared a conventional PCST pro ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · June 2006
Impaired quality of life is associated with increased mortality in patients with advanced lung disease. Using a randomized controlled trial with allocation concealment and blinded outcome assessment at 2 tertiary care teaching hospitals, the authors random ...
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Journal articlePsychol Aging · June 2006
This study of older patients with osteoarthritis and their spouses examined concordance between patients' and spouses' reports of patients' pain severity and the association of concordance with support and caregiving outcomes. Patients and spouses independ ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · March 2006
Studies have documented the efficacy of coping skills training (CST) for managing pain, distress, and disability in persons with arthritis. However, no laboratory studies have examined the effects of CST on descending modulation of nociception. This study ...
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Journal articlePsychooncology · December 2005
This study examined patterns of disclosure about cancer-related concerns between patients with GI cancer and their spouses, and associations between patient and spouse disclosure and patient adjustment, spouse adjustment, and aspects of relationship functi ...
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Journal articlePain · October 2005
This study examined the role of patient and caregiver ambivalence over emotional expression (AEE) in pain and quality of life (QOL) in a sample of 78 patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. Measures of ambivalence over emotional expression as well as r ...
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Journal articleJ Holist Nurs · September 2005
PURPOSE: Loving-kindness meditation has been used for centuries in the Buddhist tradition to develop love and transform anger into compassion. This pilot study tested an 8-week loving-kindness program for chronic low back pain patients. METHOD: Patients (N ...
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Journal articleBiol Psychiatry · August 1, 2005
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this review is to assess the relationship between mood disorders and development, course, and associated morbidity and mortality of selected medical illnesses, review evidence for treatment, and determine needs in clinical practic ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · August 2005
This pilot study investigated the utility of a cognitive-behavioral model in understanding insomnia in early-stage lung cancer patients. Nineteen patients meeting criteria for insomnia and a comparison group of 13 patients not meeting these criteria comple ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · March 2005
This preliminary study tested the efficacy of a partner-guided cancer pain management protocol for patients who are at the end of life. Seventy-eight advanced cancer patients meeting criteria for hospice eligibility and their partners were randomly assigne ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · February 2005
UNLABELLED: Clinical observations suggest that many patients with chronic pain have difficulty forgiving persons they perceive as having unjustly offended them in some way. By using a sample of 61 patients with chronic low back pain, this study sought to d ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · February 2005
UNLABELLED: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether personality traits, as assessed by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), at time of college entry can predict the number of reported pain conditions at an approximate 30-year f ...
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Journal articleAnnu Rev Psychol · 2005
Psychologists are increasingly involved in the assessment and treatment of disease-related pain such as pain secondary to arthritis or cancer. This review is divided into four sections. In the first section, we provide a conceptual background on this area ...
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Journal articleBreast Dis · 2005
The current paper reviews the literature regarding psychosocial issues confronting young women with breast cancer. The findings indicate that younger women with breast cancer experience a lower quality of life after cancer compared to older women. In part, ...
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Journal articleDepress Anxiety · 2005
Patients with depression are often excluded from studies on the treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD), leaving gaps in our knowledge about the impact of depressive affect on treatment for SAD. Patients participated in a randomized, placebo-controlled ...
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Journal articlePain · December 2004
The present study examined relationships between pain coping, hormone replacement therapy, and laboratory and clinical pain reports in post-menopausal women and age-matched men with osteoarthritis. Assessment of nociceptive flexion reflex threshold was fol ...
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Journal articlePain · November 2004
Theory and research suggest that spousal responses to displays of pain behavior can vary markedly. To our knowledge, observational research on spousal responses to pain behavior has been carried out only in chronic low back pain patients, but not in other ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · November 2004
This study examined the relationship between patient and partner ratings of self-efficacy for symptom control and quality of life (QOL) among 40 African American prostate cancer survivors and their intimate partners. Data analyses revealed that cancer surv ...
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Journal articleArch Gen Psychiatry · October 2004
BACKGROUND: Generalized social phobia is common, persistent, and disabling and is often treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor drugs or cognitive behavioral therapy. OBJECTIVE: We compared fluoxetine (FLU), comprehensive cognitive behavioral g ...
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Journal articleJournal of Social and Clinical Psychology · October 1, 2004
This study examined the influence of social skills on emotional disclosure in private and interpersonal settings. Eighty-five women with either high or low social skills disclosed an emotionally painful event in private (i.e., to a tape recorder) orto anot ...
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Journal articleSupport Care Cancer · September 2004
The purpose of this randomized controlled study was to assess the effects of a structured pain education program on the pain experience of hospitalized cancer patients. Eligible cancer pain patients were randomly assigned to either an experimental group (r ...
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Journal articlePain · August 2004
This study tested the separate and combined effects of spouse-assisted pain coping skills training (SA-CST) and exercise training (ET) in a sample of patients having persistent osteoarthritic knee pain. Seventy-two married osteoarthritis (OA) patients with ...
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Journal articlePain · August 2004
This study examined gender differences in prospective within-day assessments of pain, pain coping, and mood in men and women having OA, and analyzed gender differences in dynamic relations between pain, mood, and pain coping. A sample of 64 women and 36 me ...
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Journal articleClin Orthop Relat Res · June 2004
Osteoarthritis is a painful and debilitating disease characterized by progressive degenerative changes in the articular cartilage and other joint tissues. Biomechanical factors play a critical role in the initiation and progression of this disease, as evid ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · May 2004
UNLABELLED: This article provides an overview of current research on psychological aspects of persistent pain. It is divided into 3 sections. In section 1, recent studies are reviewed that provide evidence that psychological factors are related to adjustme ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · March 2004
Self-discrepancies occur when patients' evaluations of their actual self differ from their views of who they ideally would like to be (ideal self) or feel they ought to be (ought self), or from patients' perceptions of how significant others wish they coul ...
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Journal articlePain Manag Nurs · March 2004
Though it has been shown that cancer patients report cognitive, behavioral, and physiologic responses to pain, little attention has been paid to the benefits of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) protocols tailored to patient characteristics. To determine ...
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Journal articleHealth Psychol · March 2004
This commentary highlights several important themes and trends in this series of articles focusing on the future of health psychology. First, the challenges posed by changes in populations will only be met if health psychologists can develop a contextual c ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · 2004
This study describes patterns of opioid analgesic prescription during a one-year period among a sample of patients with osteoarthritis (OA). The study sample included 3,061 patients with prior ICD-9 codes indicating a diagnosis of OA who were treated at a ...
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Journal articleCancer Nurs · December 2003
The purposes of this study were to explore symptom distress, catastrophic thinking (catastrophizing) and hope, and factors predicting hope in Taiwanese nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients within 3 years of receiving radiation therapy (RT). Instruments ...
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Journal articleTechniques in Neurosurgery · September 1, 2003
Implantable pain management devices are becoming increasingly popular. The success of these devices, however, often depends on psychological factors being screened out prior to or addressed concomitantly with implanting the device. Currently there is littl ...
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Journal articlePain · August 2003
Pain-related beliefs and pain coping strategies are central components of current cognitive-behavioral models of chronic pain, and have been found in numerous studies to be associated significantly with psychosocial and physical disability. However, the le ...
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Journal articleBiol Psychiatry · August 1, 2003
This review highlights recent research findings on the relationship between persistent pain and depression and discusses the implications of these findings for future research in persons who suffer from both pain and depression. First, we briefly discuss a ...
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Journal articlePain · May 2003
This preliminary study examined the self-efficacy of family caregivers with regard to helping cancer patients manage pain at end of life. A sample of 63 family caregivers of hospice-eligible cancer patients with pain provided ratings of their self-efficacy ...
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Journal articlePain · May 2003
A number of studies have shown that catastrophizing is an important predictor of pain and disability in persons having persistent pain conditions. The newly developed communal model of catastrophizing maintains that catastrophizing is a part of broader, in ...
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Journal articlePain · March 2003
Meta-analytic techniques were utilized to investigate the relationship between self-reports of pain intensity and direct observations of pain behavior. Estimation of the overall effect size from 29 studies and 85 effect sizes yielded a moderately positive ...
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Journal articleJ Cancer Educ · 2003
BACKGROUND: Heightened distress at the time of a loved one's lung cancer diagnosis may motivate relatives to quit smoking or could undermine cessation. METHODS: Relatives of new lung cancer patients at Duke were surveyed by telephone to assess diagnosis-re ...
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Journal articleAging Ment Health · January 2003
This study evaluated a novel intervention for older osteoarthritis (OA) patients and their spousal caregivers that consisted of standard patient education supplemented by information related to effectively managing arthritis as a couple. Twenty-four female ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · December 2002
The objective of this study was to test whether Interactive Voice Response (IVR) can be used to enhance the therapeutic outcome of patients receiving group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for chronic pain. Ten subjects with chronic pain syndromes partic ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · October 2002
This pilot cross-sectional study aimed to 1) explore pain beliefs and adherence to prescribed analgesics in Taiwanese cancer patients, and 2) examine how selected pain beliefs, pain sensory characteristics, and demographic factors predict analgesic adheren ...
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Journal articlePain · July 2002
This study examined the degree of correspondence between lung cancer patients and their family caregivers in their perceptions of the patients' self-efficacy for managing pain and other symptoms of lung cancer, and the association of this correspondence to ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · June 2002
This article provides an overview of the emerging literature on biopsychosocial assessment and treatment for two of the most common forms of arthritis: osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. The article is divided into 3 parts. In the 1st part, the basic ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · June 2002
This article highlights future directions for research and practice in behavioral medicine. Topics addressed include social and environmental issues, the role of technology, translational research, improving and developing interventions, and professional t ...
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Journal articleAppl Psychophysiol Biofeedback · June 2002
Persons who have pain engage in behaviors such as resting in bed, taking medication, moving in a guarded fashion, or grimacing that communicate the fact that pain is being experienced. Pain-related behaviors increasingly are viewed as an important target i ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · June 2002
This collection of articles follows prior special issues on behavioral medicine published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1982 and 1992. From the vantage point of the Decade of Behavior, the field has grown in scope, depth of basic ...
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Journal articleEconomics of Neuroscience · February 1, 2002
How can cognitive-behavioral therapy benefit patients with persistent pain? The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches to persistent pain. The review is divided into four sections. In the first section ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · 2002
OBJECTIVE: The assumption that individuals are capable of accurately recalling past painful experiences has been a fundamental tenet of a number of cognitive-behavioral theories of pain, including the gate control theory. However, there has been very littl ...
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Journal articlePsychosom Med · 2002
OBJECTIVE: This article provides an overview of how psychosomatic research on pain has evolved over the past 60 years as exemplified by studies published in Psychosomatic Medicine. METHODS: Each issue of Psychosomatic Medicine from 1939 to 1999 was reviewe ...
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Journal articlePain · November 2001
The current paper provides a brief overview of research on the effects of race and ethnicity on pain. More specifically, the article reviews the utility of the concepts of race and ethnicity for pain research, suggests operational definitions of race and e ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Psychol · April 2001
Recently, there has been growing interest in the relation between pain and emotion. Numerous recent studies have been conducted in this area. This article provides an introduction to this interesting area by highlighting selected research topics including ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · April 2001
The objective of this preliminary study was to evaluate more fully the role of daily spiritual experiences and daily religious/spiritual coping in the experience of individuals with pain due to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Thirty-five individuals with RA wer ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · March 2001
The tendency to "catastrophize" during painful stimulation contributes to more intense pain experience and increased emotional distress. Catastrophizing has been broadly conceived as an exaggerated negative "mental set" brought to bear during painful exper ...
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Journal articlePain · September 2000
One hundred and sixty-eight patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knees participated in this study. Of the participants, 72 were men and 96 were women. All participants completed the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS), underwent a 10 min standar ...
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Journal articlePain · September 2000
Clinical observations and recent studies suggest that arthritis patients vary considerably in their involvement in self-management efforts. In the literature on health promotion, there is growing recognition that patients may be at different stages of chan ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res · February 2000
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was 3-fold: 1) to assess the feasibility of a daily diary for use with children with juvenile rheumatic disease (JRD), 2) to describe daily variation in mood, stressful events, and symptoms in children with JRD, and 3) ...
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Journal articlePsychosom Med · 2000
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that the nature and quality of coping may positively or negatively affect health outcome; however, this relationship has not been well studied among patients with gastrointestinal (GI) disorders. OBJECTIVES: The primary objec ...
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Journal articleJ Pain · 2000
In this study, pain during mammography in women treated conservatively for breast cancer was examined. It studied pain intensity and its relation to a variety of demographic, medical, and pain coping variables as well as to objective measures of breast com ...
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Journal articleCurr Rev Pain · 2000
Individuals who have pain engage in certain pain-related behaviors that tend to communicate their pain to others. There is growing recognition that the careful observation of such pain behaviors is an important component of a comprehensive pain assessment. ...
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Journal articlePain · December 1999
The effects of disease (form of arthritis) and gender on pain, mood, and pain coping strategies were examined in a prospective 30-day diary study of 71 patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and 76 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Diary instruments included join ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · June 1999
OBJECTIVE: To help rectify the underdiagnosis of chronic pain in frail nursing home residents by developing a new feasible pain self-report instrument, the structured pain interview; to use this new tool to estimate pain prevalence and staff's knowledge of ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res · April 1999
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the long-term effects of a spouse-assisted coping skills intervention in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knees, and to evaluate how pre- to posttreatment changes in marital adjustment and self-efficacy relate to long-term im ...
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Journal articlePain · April 1999
Pain assessment in nursing home residents poses challenges since many of these individuals are too cognitively impaired to respond to traditional self-report instruments. Assessment of pain behavior in this population offers a logical alternative. The purp ...
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Journal articlePain · March 1999
There is an increasing awareness in the medical community that psychosocial variables such as beliefs in self-efficacy are important determinants of treatment outcome. However, before measures of self-efficacy are widely incorporated into clinical practice ...
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Journal articleRheum Dis Clin North Am · February 1999
A variety of reliable and valid psychosocial assessment instruments have been developed. Many of these instruments are brief and easily incorporated into clinical practice settings. Measures of coping, self-efficacy, helplessness, and cognitive distortion ...
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Journal articleCurrent Directions in Psychological Science · January 1, 1999
Traditionally, pain has been viewed as a asensory event warning of tissue damage or illness. This explanation fails to account for many of the experiences of people suffering from clinically painful conditions. Over the past two decades, a new biopsychosoc ...
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Journal articlePain Forum · January 1, 1999
This Commentary addresses some common conceptual errors and methodological issues raised by the Focus article by Geisser, Robinson, and Riley. One conceptual error, the problem of confounding coping with outcome, is evident in their assertion that catastro ...
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Journal articleJ Cardiopulm Rehabil · 1999
PURPOSE: To compare three equations developed to predict VO2 among patients diagnosed with one of two chronic diseases: essential hypertension (HTN), and fibromyalgia (FM). The equations included the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) equation, the ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res · December 1998
There has been growing interest in the use of formal self-management training programs for people with fibromyalgia (FM). In these programs, health care professionals serve as trainers and provide education about FM and guided instruction in specific self- ...
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Journal articleAging (Milano) · October 1998
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of cognitive function and other biopsychosocial factors on test-retest agreement, four-week variability, and intensity of self-reported pain using the verbal 0 to 10 scale and a pain thermometer in 115 ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · June 1998
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe parental pain history and the family environment as it relates to the functional status of children with Juvenile Primary Fibromyalgia Syndrome (JPFS). DESIGN AND OUTCOME MEASURES: Twenty-nine parents of ...
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Journal articlePain · May 1998
The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the pain map as a pain assessment tool in frail nursing home residents. The study was conducted in two phases. In Phase 1, nursing home staff's knowledge of the locations of resident pain complaints w ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · February 1998
Interventions in health psychology and behavioral medicine represent an integral area of research for the development of psychological therapies to enhance health behaviors, manage symptoms and sequelae of disease, treat psychological symptoms and disorder ...
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Journal articlePain · November 1997
This study examined the relationship of pain coping strategies to osteoarthritis patients' ratings of self-efficacy and to spouses' ratings of the patients' self-efficacy. Subjects, 130 individuals having osteoarthritis of the knees and persistent knee pai ...
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Journal articlePain · November 1997
This study examined the pain experience and pain coping of children with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA). The purpose of the study was to describe present pain and the pain coping strategies utilized by children with juvenile chronic arthritis and examine ...
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Journal articlePain · November 1997
This study examined how pain coping efficacy and pain coping strategies were related to reports of pain during mammography. Subjects were 125 women over the age of 50 undergoing screening mammograms. Prior to their mammogram, all subjects completed the Cop ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res · June 1997
OBJECTIVE: To examine how self-efficacy for arthritis pain relates to the perception of controlled laboratory pain stimuli. METHODS: Forty patients with osteoarthritis completed self-report measures of self-efficacy for arthritis pain. They then participat ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · June 1997
In 1994 ten NIH institutes sponsored an interagency workshop focusing on biobehavioral pain research. The workshop had three major goals: (1) to review the current status of biobehavioral pain research (2) to identify critical research needs, and (3) to en ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · March 1997
OBJECTIVE: The Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ), a measure of coping in chronic pain patients, was subjected to item-level exploratory factor analysis. SUBJECTS: A sample of 965 chronic pain patients were used in the analysis. RESULTS: Principal compo ...
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Journal articleMed Clin North Am · January 1997
Cognitive-behavioral approaches appear to offer a viable alternative for the management of arthritis pain. Controlled studies have documented the efficacy of CBT protocols for managing pain in individuals having OA and RA. Preliminary studies examining the ...
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Journal articlePain Forum · January 1, 1997
Personality traits and characteristics have repeatedly been studied in the chronic pain literature. Accurate personality disorder diagnosis is now being conducted in the psychiatric literature through the use of semistructured interview techniques. There h ...
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Journal articlePsychology Health and Medicine · January 1, 1997
This article presents preliminary data on a new method for analysing spouses' ratings of their marital partner's pain. Subjects were 19 individuals with persistent osteoarthritic knee pain and their spouses. Spouses viewed a videotape of the patient engagi ...
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Journal articlePsychosom Med · 1997
OBJECTIVE: Clinical research on psychosocial and behavioral medicine interventions has burgeoned in the past two decades, so much so that sole reliance on standard no-treatment control conditions may no longer be appropriate or feasible. We discuss the eth ...
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Journal articleInt J Psychiatry Med · 1997
OBJECTIVE: To examine psychosocial and physical health correlates of religious coping in medically ill chronically institutionalized older adults. Religious coping is defined as the extent to which persons use religious beliefs and practices to help them t ...
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Journal articlePain · January 1997
Data from daily diaries were used to analyze pain coping processes in rheumatoid arthritis patients. For 30 consecutive days, 53 individuals described the pain coping strategies they used that day and rated the efficacy of their coping, joint pain, and pos ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · December 1996
The study had two purposes: (a) to examine the relationships among coping strategies measured by the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) (1), the Vanderbilt Pain Management Inventory (VPMI) (2), and the Ways of Coping Inventory (WOC) (3) and identify the ...
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Journal articleJ Orthop Sports Phys Ther · October 1996
There is growing recognition of the limitations of conventional, biomedical approaches to the management of pain in individuals having arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders. This article provides an overview of newly developed biopsychosocial approaches ...
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Journal articlePain · October 1996
Pain evaluation typically relies upon the use of self-report instruments. The validity of these tools is questionable in many older adults, however, particularly those with cognitive impairment. Rating of pain behavior (e.g. grimacing, sighing) by an objec ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res · August 1996
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of a spouse-assisted pain-coping skills training intervention on pain, psychological disability, physical disability, pain-coping, and pain behavior in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knees. METHODS: Eighty-eight ...
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Journal articlePain · August 1996
Reports of pain during mammography show that there is great variability in both the incidence of reported pain (0.2-62%) and the intensity of that pain. Much of that variability may be due to the measures used to rate mammography pain. This is the first st ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res · April 1996
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was twofold: 1) to describe the coping strategies used by children with juvenile primary fibromyalgia syndrome (JPFS), and 2) to examine how pain coping relates to measures of pain, disability/function, psychological d ...
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Journal articlePain · April 1995
This study sought to identify distinct subgroups of chronic pain patients based on responses to the Symptom Checklist 90-revised (SCL-90R), a measure of psychological distress. Two scoring methods were used: the standard scoring that accompanies the manual ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · March 1995
OBJECTIVE: The first goal of the study was to determine the internal reliability of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) in young adults. The second goal was to examine the relation of the CSQ to reported pain levels. The third goal was to investigate ...
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Journal articleExperimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology · January 1, 1995
The effects of cigarette smoking on pain perception were evaluated in 18 healthy smokers. Thermal pain stimuli were used to assess pain detection threshold and tolerance and to collect subjective ratings of the intensity and unpleasantness of painful stimu ...
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Journal articlePain Forum · January 1, 1995
Personality assessment has a long history in the investigation of pain problems, and perhaps it is time to reflect on its relevance in the context of understanding pain. Although number of different personality inventories have been developed recently, the ...
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Journal articlePain · December 1994
Given the lack of objective physical measures for assessing fibromyalgia syndrome (FS), the role of pain assessment is particularly important. The role of psychological factors is controversial among FS patients. This study was designed to better understan ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · December 1994
OBJECTIVES/DESIGN: Two studies were carried out to examine how gender and family pain history related to pain and activity interference in young adults. The first study (n = 252 college students) examined how gender and family pain history related to pain ...
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Journal articlePain · October 1994
Research has shown that catastrophizing is related to increased depression and chronic pain. However, some researchers have questioned the utility of catastrophizing as a separate construct, suggesting that it may just be a symptom of depression. The prese ...
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Journal articlePain · March 1994
Although some women report having little pain or discomfort during mammography, other women find mammography to be a painful and uncomfortable experience. Cognitive and behavioral factors may influence the perception of pain and discomfort during mammograp ...
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Journal articleArthritis Rheumatism · January 1, 1994
Purpose. We examined whether or not there are systematic differences in how people appraise different types of illness‐related problems and in how they cope with these problems. Methods. Two hundred thirty‐five adults with recently diagnosed rheumatoid art ...
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Journal articleArthritis Care Res · December 1993
OBJECTIVE: This paper critically reviews research studies examining the long-term effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy interventions for managing pain in rheumatoid arthritis patients. METHODS AND RESULTS: The first section of the paper evaluates long-t ...
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Journal articleArthritis Rheum · July 1993
The contributions of MACs and RRTCs to the generation of arthritis-related biopsychosocial research over the last 15 years have been enormous. However, the assimilation of biopsychosocial concepts into mainstream clinical practice, professional education, ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · June 1993
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present study was to examine factors that influence individual differences in treatment response after multidisciplinary pain management. DESIGN: Pre-post assessment design. PATIENTS: 119 chronic pain inpatients. MAIN MEASURES ...
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Journal articleArthritis Rheum · November 1992
OBJECTIVE: Satisfaction with abilities and perceived importance of abilities are 2 factors involved in the process of self-evaluation. We examined the role that these factors play in adjustment to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: Data were collected, vi ...
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Journal articlePain · November 1992
Although reflexes are recognized as protective responses to noxious stimuli, less is known about voluntary behavioral responses to cancer pain, which could provide clinicians with important diagnostic and therapeutic information. Forty-five patients with l ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Immunol · September 1992
Rheumatoid arthritis is a complex inflammatory disease of unknown cause. Although various laboratory and clinical measurements are useful in managing these patients, there is a need for better tests to quantitatively assess disease activity. The purpose of ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · August 1992
Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral approaches to chronic pain are receiving increasing attention from researchers and clinicians. This article reviews and highlights recent research advances and future research directions. Assessment research reviewed inc ...
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Journal articlePain · August 1992
This research develops and evaluates a simple method of grading the severity of chronic pain for use in general population surveys and studies of primary care pain patients. Measures of pain intensity, disability, persistence and recency of onset were test ...
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Journal articleArch Phys Med Rehabil · June 1992
Electrodiagnostic studies produce both anxiety and pain, which can prevent adequate examination and limit the usefulness of test results. This study examined the spontaneous coping strategies used to manage the pain and anxiety experienced during electrodi ...
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Journal articlePain · March 1992
We argue that the conflicting results reported in previous studies examining the factor structure of the McGill Pain Questionnaire Pain Rating Index (PRI) can be explained by differences in the patient samples and statistical analyses used across studies. ...
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Journal articleAps Journal · January 1, 1992
This article summarizes recent research on pain behavior observation and highlights a number of controversial issues involved in applying this approach to the assessment of chronic pain patients. The article is divided into two major sections. In the first ...
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Journal articleClin J Pain · December 1991
Previous findings in patients with nonmalignant pain indicate a relationship between pain coping strategies and psychological factors. Although coping strategies have been explored in patients with cancer pain, relationships with such factors have not been ...
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Journal articlePain · August 1991
Patients' beliefs about chronic pain, such as how long it will last and whether it is a mysterious experience, have been shown to be related to compliance with treatment programs. The present study examined whether these pain beliefs related to a specific ...
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Journal articlePain · August 1991
This study used the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) to investigate pain coping strategies in 52 rheumatoid arthritis patients who reported having knee pain 1 year or more following knee replacement surgery. Data analysis revealed that, as a group, th ...
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Journal articleBiofeedback Self Regul · March 1991
This paper presents a single case controlled study of a 75-year-old male having bilateral total knee replacement. Baseline EMG recordings demonstrated differential levels of vastus medialis and vastus lateralis muscle activity in both knees during exercise ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1991
The present study investigated the relation of pain coping strategies to physical disability, pain, psychological disability, depression and daily hassles in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Subjects were 65 RA patients recruited from an outpatient rheu ...
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Journal articlePain · November 1990
Previous research has demonstrated a relationship between cognitive pain coping activity and adjustment in pain patients. The empirically derived dimensions of coping activity, as measured by scales from the Coping Strategy Questionnaire (CSQ), however, ha ...
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Journal articleJ Gerontol · July 1990
This study examined the effects of age on the frequency of use and perceived effectiveness of coping strategies in patients having chronic pain. Subjects were chronic pain patients in four age groups (young, middle, older, and geriatric). All subjects comp ...
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Journal articlePain · March 1990
Sixty-two chronic low back pain patients were administered the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) to assess the frequency of use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral pain coping strategies. Analysis of individual variable ...
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Journal articlePain · February 1990
A hierarchical cluster analysis procedure was used to identify homogeneous subgroups of low back pain patients who show similar pain behavior patterns during a videotaped behavior sample. Subjects, 106 chronic low back pain patients, were divided into 2 sa ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1990
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to improve pain coping skills could reduce pain, physical disability, psychological disability, and pain behavior in osteoarthritic knee pain patients. Patients ...
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Journal articleAnesth Prog · 1990
Orofacial pain is usually evaluated and treated from a biomedical perspective. There is no question that the large majority of individuals having acute orofacial pain benefit from timely and appropriate medical intervention. When orofacial pain persists, h ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1990
The present study assessed the reliability and validity of a behavioral observation technique designed to assess pain behaviors in cancer patients. Data supported the reliability of the procedure in that the level of interobserver agreement was quite accep ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1990
This study examines the degree to which negative thoughts during flare-ups of pain are related to pain and psychological distress in three pain populations, sickle cell disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic pain. One-hundred eighty-five subjects compl ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1990
This study examines six months follow-up data obtained from osteoarthritic knee pain patients participating in a study comparing pain coping skills training, arthritis education, and a standard care control condition. At the time of follow-up, patients rec ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · December 1989
This study examines pain coping strategies in a relatively neglected pain population, sickle cell disease (SCD) patients. Seventy-nine patients diagnosed with SCD were given a structured interview to assess pain, activity level, and health care use during ...
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Journal articlePain · April 1989
The present study examined catastrophizing in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Subjects were 223 RA patients who were participants in a longitudinal study. Each patient completed the Catastrophizing scale of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) on ...
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Journal articleClinical Psychology Review · January 1, 1989
Psychological and behavioral methods have played an active role in shaping current approaches to the assessment and treatment of pain. This article assumes familiarity with the more traditional forms of psychological intervention for pain and reviews the d ...
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Journal articlePain · November 1988
Although behavioral scientists have long been interested in how an individual's locus of control relates to coping and adjustment, basic information remains to be gathered on the relevance of locus of control to adaptation to persistent pain. This study ex ...
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Journal articlePain · April 1988
This study examined the extent to which the psychological variables of depression, anxiety, and helplessness predicted the pain behavior and functional status of 64 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients beyond what could be predicted on the basis of demograph ...
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Journal articlePain · March 1988
Three experiments were conducted to determine the reliability and validity of an activity measurement device, the actometer, as an index of ambulation for chronic pain patients. In experiment I, correlations between yoked actometers during ambulation showe ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1988
This study examines scratching behavior in children with atopic dermatitis (AD). Thirty children with severe AD and one parent of each child were observed for a 10-minute observation period during a five-minute structured and five-minute unstructured task. ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1988
Two related studies examined the relationship of overt pain behaviors to measures of patient functioning and treatment outcome. In Study 1, overt pain behaviors of 45 chronic low back pain patients beginning inpatient pain treatment were assessed, and self ...
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Journal articleJ Rheumatol · August 1987
An observation method for the assessment of pain behaviors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been developed. We investigated the extent to which the frequencies of pain behaviors differentiated patients with RA and patients with chronic low ba ...
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Journal articlePain · May 1987
Research has shown that social support is generally associated with better adaptation to chronic disease. However, the role that social support plays in adjustment to chronic pain syndromes has received less research attention. The present study was design ...
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Journal articlePain · March 1987
This study used behavioral assessment techniques to analyze pain in osteoarthritis (OA) patients. Eighty-seven OA patients having chronic knee pain served as subjects. Pain behavior was evaluated using a standard observation method and functional impairmen ...
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Journal articleArthritis Rheum · January 1987
It is difficult to objectively measure pain in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A behavioral observation method for the assessment of RA pain has been developed. In this study, videotapes were made of 53 RA patients while they performed standardized maneuvers. T ...
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Journal articleJ Human Stress · 1987
This study examined coping strategies in head and neck cancer patients. The relationships between the use of approach and avoidant coping strategies and the physical and emotional distress of 35 newly diagnosed head and neck cancer patients during the earl ...
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Journal articleJ Psychosom Res · 1987
The relation of stress and family environment to symptom severity in children with atopic dermatitis (AD) was examined. Forty-four children with severe AD and their families completed questionnaires measuring life events, chronic everyday problems and fami ...
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Journal articlePain · November 1986
The type A behavior pattern is characterized by excessive competitive drive, a sense of time urgency, enhanced aggressiveness, hostility and a persistent desire for recognition. Type A behaviour is widely recognized as a risk factor in coronary heart disea ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Psychol · May 1986
Two studies designed to examine the self-report of depressive symptoms in low back pain patients are presented. Symptoms of depression were assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory. In the first study, a sample (N = 134) of patients who presented for ne ...
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Journal articlePain · February 1986
Four studies examined the reliability and validity of a behavioral observation method for the assessment of pain associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The major purpose of experiment 1 was to evaluate the interobserver reliability of the observation m ...
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Journal articleHead Neck Surg · 1986
The incidence, severity, and location of pain was evaluated in 30 head and neck cancer patients prior to treatment after the first phase of their treatment and upon the completion of treatment. The incidence of pain was relatively high (40%-70%) and tended ...
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Journal articlePain · January 1986
Pain behavior and pain coping strategies were systematically measured in a group of 32 chronic low back pain (LBP) and 32 myofascial pain dysfunction (MPD) syndrome patients. Both groups reported high levels of psychological distress on the SCL-90R. The LB ...
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Journal articleClinical Psychology Review · January 1, 1986
Psychological, social, and behavioral factors appear to play an important role in determining how patients adapt to chronic pain. There is a growing consensus among physicians that traditional diagnostic approaches to chronic pain must be expanded to addre ...
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Journal articleJ Psychosom Res · 1986
This study examined the relationship of self-reports of illness behavior to pain ratings and overt pain behaviors in a group of chronic low back pain patients referred for pain management. Illness behavior was measured using the Pilowsky and Spence Illness ...
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Journal articlePain · December 1985
Behavioral evaluations of pain were carried out on a sample of 30 head and neck cancer patients before, at the midpoint, and at the end of their treatment. Observations of patients' behavior as they carried out functional activities revealed that patients ...
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Journal articlePain · February 1985
Patterns of walking and concomitant pain behavior were compared in a group of chronic low back patients (n = 18) and normal controls (n = 18). Subjects were asked to walk a 5 m course. A transducer placed in the subjects' shoes produced a force proportiona ...
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Journal articlePain · October 1984
Chronic pain patients were asked to psychophysically scale two sets of word descriptors (intensity and unpleasantness) using a crossmodality matching procedure with line length and numerical estimates. In 22 patients (group I) descriptor scaling was perfor ...
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Journal articlePain · September 1984
Trained observers measured the occurrence of 5 behaviors (guarding, bracing, rubbing, grimacing, and sighing) in a group of 80 low back pain patients undergoing physical examination. Bracing was frequently displayed, rubbing, guarding, and grimacing were m ...
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Journal articleSoc Sci Med · 1984
The use of narcotic analgesics have been avoided by clinicians in patients with chronic pain syndromes. Uncertainty as to the etiological cause of chronic pain, development of addiction and habituation and associated psychological and behavioral symptoms f ...
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Journal articleGen Hosp Psychiatry · January 1984
The authors describe a 15-bed psychiatry inpatient unit, the Clinical Specialty Unit (CSU), designed to treat patients with chronic pain syndromes. They argue that the use of psychiatry beds for this purpose is appropriate, given the nature of the chronic ...
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Journal articleGen Hosp Psychiatry · January 1984
This article briefly reviews behavioral and psychologic methods currently used to assess chronic pain patients. Assessment techniques designed to measure pain report, overt behavior patterns, and psychologic functioning are described. A variety of behavior ...
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Journal articlePain · September 1983
Cognitive and behavioral pain coping strategies were assessed by means of questionnaire in a sample of 61 chronic low back pain patients. Data analysis indicated that the questionnaire was internally reliable. While patients reported using a variety of cop ...
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Journal articlePain · October 1981
The response of 111 chronic low back pain patients to a comprehensive behavioral treatment program emphasizing relaxation procedures is examined. Over the course of treatment, significant reductions were obtained on measures of subjective tension, EMG acti ...
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Journal articleJ Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry · June 1981
This study examined the efficacy of a simple autogenic and biofeedback treatment package in the management of Raynaud's Phenomenon secondary to diagnosed collagen vascular disease. The patient, diagnosed as suffering from mixed connective tissue disease, h ...
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Journal articleAmerican Journal of Clinical Biofeedback · January 1, 1981
This study examines the short and long-term effects of EMG-assisted relaxation training in a series of 18 chronic low back pain patients. All patients had a minimum of six laboratory training sessions and were asked to practice on their own what they were ...
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Journal articleJournal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry · January 1, 1980
Difficulty in maitaining exercise regimens over long time periods is a common problem. This study examined the efficacy of a combination of stimulus control and self- reinforcement procedures in the acquisition and maintenance of a walking exercise program ...
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Journal articleJ Appl Behav Anal · 1980
Twenty-one female patients suffering from diagnosed idiopathic Raynaud's Disease were trained to raise digital skin temperature using either autogenic training, progressive muscle relaxation, or a combination of autogenic training and skin temperature feed ...
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Journal articleJ Behav Med · December 1979
The purpose of this study was to assess to what degree learned control of digital temperature and vasospastic attacks can be retained by Raynaud's patients over a full year period. Subjects were 19 patients suffering from diagnosed idiopathic Raynaud's dis ...
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Journal articleAm J Community Psychol · February 1979
Two behavior modification groups for parents of problem children between the ages of two and ten were conducted along the lines of the Responsive Teaching Model. The two groups met for 10 and 8 weeks, respectively, with six families represented in each gro ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1979
Two studies assessed the extent to which learned control over finger temperature could be developed. In Experiment I subjects received a short-term (five-session) biofeedback training regimen to decrease or increase temperature. Analyses of temperature dat ...
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Journal articleJ Behav Med · December 1978
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to determine the effects of instructions vs. biofeedback on the development of skin temperature self-control and (2) to assess how well learned control over temperature can be retained over time. Sixty female subj ...
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Journal articleJ Behav Med · March 1978
Electromyographic biofeedback is becoming widely used to help patients regain voluntary control of specific muscles affected by neuromuscular disorders. Electromyographic feedback training has been employed in the rehabilitation of patients affected by pol ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1978
Studies dealing with the application of frontalis EMG feedback to the treatment of a variety of disorders are reveiwed. Successful applications of frontalis EMG feedback training have been reported in the treatment of muscle contraction headaches, asthma, ...
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Journal articlePercept Mot Skills · February 1975
8 male Ss were presented with visual and auditory analog feedback regarding the difference between forehead and finger temperature. 4 Ss were instructed to raise the temperature of their finger in comparison with the forehead, while a second group of 4 Ss ...
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