Distraction analgesia in chronic pain patients: the impact of catastrophizing.

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Abstract

Diverting attention away from noxious stimulation (i.e., distraction) is a common pain-coping strategy. Its effects are variable across individuals, however, and the authors hypothesized that chronic pain patients who reported higher levels of pain catastrophizing would derive less pain-reducing benefit from distraction.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Anesthesiology

Title: Anesthesiology

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1528-1175

ISSN (Print): 0003-3022

Publication date (Electronic): Dec 2014

Volume: 121

Issue: 6

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[1 ] From the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (K.L.S., S.G., R.N.J., R.R.E.); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (C.C., A.D.W.); Department of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (C.C., A.D.W.); Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital (M.O.M., R.N.J., R.R.E.); and Center for Pain and the Brain, P.A.I.N. Group, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (D.B.).

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DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000465

PubMed ID: 25264596

SO-VID: f7d21c8c-8274-4351-95b9-facb015bdfd4

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