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Effects of Chronic Pain on Neurocognitive Functioning: Does Catastrophizing Mediate
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Effects of Chronic Pain on Neurocognitive Functioning: Does Catastrophizing Mediate
Yazar:
Sandoval, Aileen Herlinda, author.
ISBN:
9780438082465
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 electronic resource (47 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: B.
Advisors: Guy Balice Committee members: Guy Balice; Joshua Wyner.
Özet:
According to a report released in 2011 by the Committee on Advancing Pain Research, Care and Education, chronic pain affects 100 million Americans; nearly one third of the United States' population. The current study compared the effect of pain on the following areas: positive distress symptoms, problem-solving, cognitive coping, working memory, and catastrophizing. Results from the first analysis indicate that the status of chronic pain was, in fact, related to participants' performance in the areas of positive distress symptoms, problem solving, cognitive coping, and working memory, when compared to participants without chronic pain.
The second analysis was conducted using catastrophizing as a covariate, and determined that the catastrophizing variable played a moderating role. Results from this analysis determined that chronic pain maintained an overall relationship with the variables examined, more specifically, a relationship between pain and positive distress symptoms. No significant relationships were found between pain and working memory.
Overall, results suggest that catastrophizing affects working memory skills and distress symptoms associated with pain. These results supported the idea that catastrophizing plays a role at least in some part to the actual experience of pain in the chronic pain patients. The cognition and focus allocated to the act of catastrophizing, may also reduce the ability to focus and effectively execute other neurocognitive functions as well.
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School code: 0971
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