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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Pain experience"”.
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Personality’s interaction with the pain experience
Pain is more than just a physical response to disease or injury. Pain is flexible and varies dependant on psychological state. Personality traits such as depression, hysteria and hypochondriasis can mediate pain. A wealth of research has identified the relationship between personality and pain, but …
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Effect of Emotion Regulation Strategies on the Pain Experience
Pain, an unpleasant subjective and multidimensional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, is fundamentally a psychological phenomenon with emotional components. As such, the multi-component coordination of processes by which emotions are moderated, emotional regulation (ER), …
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A Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Acute Pain Experience: An Examination of Individual Difference
… of a 15-minute mindfulness intervention on acute pain experience. The study employed a three-group, repeated measures experimental design with two active control conditions (sham mindfulness and attention control) and an analogue pain induction procedure (cold-pressor test). The sample consisted …
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How do persons living with lower back pain experience disability in their daily lives? A qualitative study
… describes how persons living with lower back pain (LBP) experience disability using the International Classification of Function, Disability and Health (ICF) framework. I conducted three focus groups. Participants ages 20-65 years, living with LBP and seeking chiropractic treatment for their …
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The use of strong personal media in the context of chronic disease treatment : music as a mediator of depression and pain experience
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, 2013.
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Psychological Predictors of Pain and Pain-related Outcomes in Athletes
… of mental toughness (i.e., optimism, resilience, pain-specific self-efficacy, and attentional control), and pain through a literature review and four studies. The literature review suggested that a relationship between mental toughness and pain existed; however, the number of studies directly …
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Experiences of Pain in Elderly Patients Having Total Knee Arthroplasty
Patients experiencing postoperative pain are at an increased risk for developing life-threatening complications. Effective interventions for pain relief exist, but are under- utilized. The reasons for the under use of interventions need to be identified so that changes in nursing practice can …
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The social dimension of chronic pain: problems of measurement
… research question investigated was, can chronic pain be measured? Two commonly used pain measurements, the McGill Pain Questionnaire and Visual Analogue Scale were compared to individual accounts of pain obtained by semi-structured interviews with people who had rheumatoid arthritis. The research …
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Explanatory models of chronic pain
Chronic pain is described as pain that persists for six months or longer. This type of pain may range from dull to excruciating and may be constant or sporadic. The purpose of this study was to explore the explanatory models of individuals living in chronic pain. The study sample included twelve …
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The impact of modifying attentional bias on vulnerability to pain
… bias” - is thought to confer vulnerability to pain. The current thesis tested this putative mechanism by modifying the bias using the visual-probe task (attentional bias modification; ABM) and examining effects of this experimental manipulation on attentional bias and critical pain outcomes. …
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Online Psychoeducational Therapy for Chronic Pain
<p>The pain experience consists of many factors including biological, psychological, social and spiritual that can exacerbate and perpetuate it, often leading to chronic pain. Provision of an online psychoeducational course, inclusive of social networking capabilities, offers remote access to …
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The Experience Of Chronic Pain As Described By African American Indigent Adults Attending An Urban Primary Care Clinic
<p><b>Background:</b> Inadequate chronic pain control has far-reaching implications including costs for missed time at work; utilization of health care resources and reduced quality of life. People at highest risk for inadequate pain control include indigent adults and minorities. Newman's theory …
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Hippocratic Pain
… dissertation assesses the manifold functions of pain in the practice of Hippocratic medicine and examines the interpenetration of pain and Hippocratic theories of the body. Chapter One contrasts the Hippocratic view of pain with the modern understanding of the phenomenon. While the experience of …
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Correlations Between Biopsychosocial Variables and Low Back Pain
… between biopsychosocial variables and low back pain. 160 German females and 110 German males (N = 270) completed a battery of questionnaires assessing their pain experience (chronicity and intensity), comorbidities, and causal attributions about disease onset. Significant relationships were …
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Pain, depression, anxiety and disability in back pain : do people seeking osteopathic treatment fit known profiles?
Background and objectives: Low back pain (LBP) is a common and challenging problem in primary health care. Many people consult osteopaths regarding LBP. The biopsychosocial model is significant in LBP research, highlighting the effects of psychological factors on the development and outcomes of LBP …
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Effects of One Neurofeedback Session on Relationship between Fear-Of-Pain and Visual Avoidance of Pain
<p>Chronic pain is increasingly prevalent and costly and will continue to be with the increasing mean age of America’s population. It is important to identify interventions addressing pain-related biopsychosocial aspects. The purpose of the current study was to examine if a single session of …
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Coping responses and pain-associated emotions: how parents and their children manage painful episodes in sickle cell disease
… knew when their children were in sickle cell pain and what types of coping strategies they used to abate the pain. Children were interviewed to obtain information as to how they thought their parents knew when they were in pain and what did their parents do when they were in pain. Facial …
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Multidimensional Experience of Pain in Adults with Advanced Liver Disease
BackgroundUnrelieved pain is a significant problem for adult patients living with advanced liver disease such as cirrhosis. Poorly managed pain can reduce the quality of living and dying among this growing population. The lack of research exploring the physical, psychological, and sociocultural …
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Subjective Vs. Objective Physical Pain in Individuals Who Report a History of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Closer Look at What it Means to Experience Pain
… to perform such behavior and differences in the experience of pain among those who self-injure. The goals for the current study were to reveal any relationships between the function of NSSI, the subjective experience of pain, and an objective measurement of pressure pain threshold. Participants …
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