Open AccessA Comparison of Pain Beliefs and Coping Strategies and Their Association with Chronic Pain Adjustment Between Singapore and United States
Author(s) -
Ivan S. K. Thong,
Gabriel Tan,
Tammy Y.C. Lee,
Mark P. Jensen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnw237
Subject(s) - chronic pain , medicine , association (psychology) , coping (psychology) , pain catastrophizing , clinical psychology , physical therapy , psychiatry , psychology , psychotherapist
Research examining the importance of pain beliefs and coping strategies to chronic pain adjustment has been performed almost exclusively using Western populations. The purpose of this study was to examine empirically the generalizability of this research to Singapore.
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