Coping with pain - Different dimensions' validity

Journal/Book: Z Klin Psychol Forsch Praxis. 1997; 26: Rohnsweg 25, D-37085 Gottingen, Germany. Hogrefe-Verlag GmbH & Co. 300-303.

Abstract: Beyond assessing patients' pain-experience clinical pain research is interested in coping strategies as well as dimensions of pain-related subjective stress. 2 previous studies revealed three domains (1) pain related subjective stress, (2) cognitive coping strategies, (3) behavioral coping strategies, each comprising 3 different dimensions. The Following study was conducted to validate these dimensions: In one correlational study (N = 82 Chronic Pain Patients), relations between variables of pain-related stress or coping, and corresponding variables not referring to pain, were examined. Another study (N = 44 In-Patients of a pain-management unit) reared the dimensions' sensitivity to therapeutic change. Data show substantial correlations between pain-related stress or coping with more general measures. Furthermore, patients' success in therapy was clearly reflected on the scales examined (reductions in pain-related stress; gains in cognitive and behavioral coping).

Note: Article Geissner E, Katholische Fachhsch Nordrhein Westfalen, Piusallee 89-93, D-48147 Munster, GERMANY

Keyword(s): pain-related subjective stress; coping with pain; cognitive and behavioral aspects of pain control; STRATEGIES

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