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A meta‐analytic review of the association between anxiety sensitivity and pain
Author(s) -
Ocañez Kendra L. S.,
Kathryn McHugh R.,
Otto Michael W.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/da.20681
Subject(s) - anxiety , anxiety sensitivity , association (psychology) , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , psychology , chronic pain , pain tolerance , pain catastrophizing , psychiatry , threshold of pain , medicine , psychotherapist , economics , macroeconomics
In recent years, anxiety sensitivity (AS) has demonstrated applicability across a wide range of conditions. An area of particular interest has been the association between AS and pain. This study aimed to provide an accounting of the magnitude of this effect across studies of both clinical and nonclinical pain. Forty‐one studies (14 clinical and 27 nonclinical pain) were evaluated in this meta‐analytic review and represented the study of 5,908 participants (2,093 for clinical and 3,815 for nonclinical pain studies). Results indicate that AS was strongly associated with fearful appraisals of pain, with more modest results for measures of pain tolerance/threshold and pain‐related disability. Implications of these results for the treatment of chronic pain are discussed. Depression and Anxiety, 2010. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.