Combined cognitive biases for pain and disability information in individuals with chronic headache: A preliminary investigation | Zendy

Daniel E. Schoth | Zendy; Laura Parry | Zendy; Christina Liossi | Zendy

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Combined cognitive biases for pain and disability information in individuals with chronic headache: A preliminary investigation

Author(s) -

Daniel E. Schoth,

Laura Parry,

Christina Liossi

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of health psychology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716

H-Index - 88

eISSN - 1461-7277

pISSN - 1359-1053

DOI - 10.1177/1359105316664136

Subject(s) - chronic pain , cognitive bias , attentional bias , cognition , psychology , recall , response bias , sentence , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy

Pain-related cognitive biases have been demonstrated in chronic pain patients, yet despite theoretical predictions are rarely investigated in combination. Combined cognitive biases were explored in individuals with chronic headache ( n = 17) and pain-free controls ( n = 20). Participants completed spatial cueing (attentional bias), sentence generation (interpretation bias) and free recall tasks (memory bias), with ambiguous sensory-pain, disability and neutral words. Individuals with chronic headache, relative to controls, showed significantly greater interpretation and memory biases favouring ambiguous sensory-pain words and interpretation bias favouring ambiguous disability words. No attentional bias was found. Further research is needed exploring the temporal pattern of cognitive biases.

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