Abstract:Chronic pain is increasingly prevalent, with associated disability carrying a high economic cost and related depression having a negative effect on the quality of life for patients and their families. A growing base of research supports that self-efficacy beliefs significantly contribute to the extent that a person is disabled by their chronic pain. To help explain the circumstances under which disability develops and why so many chronic pain patients become depressed a path analytic model was tested in 3 samp… Show more
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