The Pain-Related Cognitive Processes Questionnaire: Development and Validation
Author(s) -
Melissa A. Day,
Leigh C. Ward,
Beverly E. Thorn,
Cathryne P. Lang,
Toby NewtonJohn,
Dawn M. Ehde,
Mark P. Jensen
Publication year - 2017
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/pnx010
Subject(s) - cognition , psychology , rumination , chronic pain , clinical psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , pain catastrophizing , distraction , cognitive psychology , structural equation modeling , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics
Cognitive processes may be characterized as how individuals think, whereas cognitive content constitutes what individuals think. Both cognitive processes and cognitive content are theorized to play important roles in chronic pain adjustment, and treatments have been developed to target both. However, the evaluation of treatments that target cognitive processes is limited because extant measures do not satisfactorily separate cognitive process from cognitive content. The current study aimed to develop a self-report inventory of potentially adaptive and presumed maladaptive attentional processes that may occur when someone is experiencing pain.
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