Measuring Pain Self-efficacy
Author(s) -
Clare Miles,
Tamar Pincus,
Dawn Carnes,
Stephanie Taylor,
Martin Underwood
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical journal of pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.109
H-Index - 126
eISSN - 1536-5409
pISSN - 0749-8047
DOI - 10.1097/ajp.0b013e318208c8a2
Subject(s) - medicine , interpretability , physical therapy , construct validity , self efficacy , chronic pain , population , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , psychometrics , psychology , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics , machine learning , computer science , psychotherapist
It is likely that people with chronic pain who have low self-efficacy have a worse prognosis. A standard, high-quality measure of self-efficacy in such populations would improve evidence, by allowing meaningful comparisons amongst subgroups and between treatments, and by facilitating pooling across studies in systematic reviews.
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