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- G Crombez, C Eccleston, F Baeyens, B van Houdenhove, and A van den Broeck.
- Department of Psychology, University of Gent, Belgium. Geert.Crombez@rug.ac.be
- J Psychosom Res. 1999 Nov 1;47(5):403-10.
AbstractPain interrupts, distracts, and is difficult to disengage from. In this study, the role of pain-related fear in moderating attentional interference produced by chronic pain was investigated. Forty chronic pain patients completed a list of questionnaires assessing pain severity, pain-related fear (Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia), and negative affect (Negative Emotionality scale). Attentional interference was measured by a numerical interference test. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the attentional interference was best predicted by the interaction between pain severity and pain-related fear. These results are discussed in terms of how pain-related fear creates a hypervigilance to pain.
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