Exploring Differences in Pain Beliefs Within and Between a Large Nonclinical (Workplace) Population and a Clinical (Chronic Low Back Pain) Population Using the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire
Author(s) -
Andrew J. Baird,
Roger Haslam
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
physical therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1538-6724
pISSN - 0031-9023
DOI - 10.2522/ptj.20120429
Subject(s) - chronic pain , population , clinical psychology , psychology , rehabilitation , exploratory factor analysis , perspective (graphical) , cross sectional study , physical therapy , medicine , psychiatry , psychometrics , environmental health , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science
Beliefs, cognitions, and behaviors relating to pain can be associated with a range of negative outcomes. In patients, certain beliefs are associated with increased levels of pain and related disability. There are few data, however, showing the extent to which beliefs of patients differ from those of the general population.
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