Open AccessDispositional Mindfulness and Acute Heat Pain: Comparing Stimulus-Evoked Pain With Summary Pain Assessment
Author(s) -
Dominik Mischkowski,
Caitlin Stavish,
Esther E. Palacios-Barrios,
Lauren A. Banker,
Troy C. Dildine,
Lauren Y. Atlas
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psychosomatic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.62
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 1534-7796
pISSN - 0033-3174
DOI - 10.1097/psy.0000000000000911
Subject(s) - mindfulness , pain catastrophizing , pain tolerance , mcgill pain questionnaire , quantitative sensory testing , psychology , threshold of pain , confidence interval , physical therapy , chronic pain , medicine , anesthesia , clinical psychology , visual analogue scale , sensory system , neuroscience
Dispositional mindfulness is associated with reduced pain in clinical and experimental settings. However, researchers have neglected the type of pain assessment, as dispositional mindfulness may have unique benefits for reduced pain sensitivity when relying on summary pain assessments, in contrast to assessing the pain of each noxious stimulus. Here, we test the association between dispositional mindfulness and pain using both trial-by-trial pain assessments and overall summary ratings after acute pain tasks.