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 specific neurofeedback (NF) protocols had an effect on subjective fear and physiological fear-avoidance behaviors in relation to pain-related stimuli. Correlational analyses revealed that FPQ-III minor pain scores were negatively associated with total fixation duration while looking at pain-related pictures. One-way ANOVAs revealed differences approaching significance for those trained on Left-Hemisphere NF protocols compared to those in Sham training for total fixation duration, moderate effect sizes were found. Statistically significant group differences were found for those trained on Right-Hemisphere protocols compared to those trained on Left-Hemisphere protocols for first fixation durations. Findings support research that implicates NF training as a neuromodulation technique for the subjective pain experience.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts - School Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human Services

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Swift, Timothy

Contributors dc:contributor

• Luis Aguerrevere
• Frankie Clark
• Nina Ellis-Hervey

• Fear-of-Pain
• Neurofeedback
• Chronic Pain
• Eye-tracking
• Fear-Avoidance
• Cognition and Perception
• Cognitive Psychology
• Health Psychology
• Pain Management

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/159

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.sfasu.edu:etds-1170