Pain Experiences and Pain Management Decisions: A Correlational Study
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Pain Experiences and Pain Management Decisions: A Correlational Study
Yazar:
Long, Preston Alexander, author.
ISBN:
9780438041936
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1 electronic resource (78 pages)
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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06M(E).
Advisors: X.T. Wang Committee members: Lee Baugh; Jan Berkhout; X.T. Wang.
Özet:
This study examines the relationship between pain experience and key decision phenomena that are well established in the literature of behavioral decision science. Constructs such as loss aversion, delayed discounting, and risky choice are the main focus of research in behavioral economics, finance and psychology. However, they are rarely used in practical contexts such as healthcare. Recent studies on embodied cognition suggest a link between physiological condition and decision making. The research assessed interactions between subjective and objective pain experience and the decision making phenomena of intertemporal choice, loss aversion, and domain-specific risk taking propensities. The purpose was to determine their potential usefulness in understanding the role of physiological pain in regulating decision behaviors.
The data were collected using a battery of assessments and one objective observational measure. Pain experience was measured using the Chronic Pain Grade Scale and the Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire. Pain management was assessed using two new measures. The first was a willingness to seek treatment tradeoff metric. The second was a pain intensity/duration measure. Here, the participants were provided with an amount of pain that they will be experiencing (imagined) and are given the task of distributing it to themselves over time. The decision making variables include the Dospert-7 for risk-taking propensities, intertemporal choice for calculating delayed discounting, loss aversion measures using a typical systematic monetary tradeoff, and impulsivity measured by the Barratt Impulsivity Scale-11. The objective measure of pain was an observation of the duration and number of hesitations for a subject to remove a band aid.
Results show that subjects treat pain similar to monetary loss. Pain is preferred summed, or experienced sharply and quickly, over spread out yet dull. Subject's preferred pain experience can be predicted from loss aversion scores. Additionally, the psychological effect of generalized pain is similar to uncertainty; subjects showed a significantly lower tolerance compared to localized pain (risk) as measured by willingness to seek treatment. Chronic pain was found to be a significant predictor of four outcomes: pain sensitivity, subjective life expectancy, attentional impulsivity, and need for cognitive closure (ambiguity reduction). In conclusion, our results suggest there are distinct parallels between the decision making and health care fields. Implications from the results concern 1) treatment seeking, 2) treatment preference, 3) malpractice vulnerability, and 4) health risk identifiers.
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