Assessment of Psychological Pain in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples: A Preliminary Investigation Using the Psychic Pain Scale

Lewis, Katie C.; Good, Evan W.; Tillman, Jane G.; Hopwood, Christopher J.

doi:10.1080/13811118.2020.1729914

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“…Depression, psychic pain, impulsiveness, anger, anxiety, despair, loneliness, panic, violence, revenge, and a host of other factors are acting in a complex and almost infinite combination to produce the catastrophic behavior in each participant. A recent study found that increasing psychic pain was related to a history of both trauma and insecure attachment style, as well as suicidal thinking and behavior, suggesting a developmental contribution to suicidal thinking and behavior (Lewis, Good, et al, 2020). Major depression is often implicated as a diagnosis associated with suicidal thoughts and behavior.…”

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States of mind preceding a near-lethal suicide attempt: A mixed methods study.

Tillman¹,

Stevens²,

Lewis³

2022

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Near-lethal suicide (NLS) attempt survivors are the nearest surrogates we have for completed suicide. In the present study, subjects reporting a recent history of NLS attempt participated in a semistructured interview aimed at reconstructing their state of mind in the hours leading up to their NLS attempt, with the goal of better understanding both situational factors and potential psychological pathways to suicide. Using a mixed methods design, a semistructured interview aimed at evaluating underlying themes of preoccupation, conflict, and defensive processes was developed and completed by participants along with self-report measures assessing demographic, psychiatric, suicide history, and mood. Participants (n = 11) were patients enrolled in residential treatment who had made an NLS attempt in the 2 years prior to participating in the study. The interviews were analyzed using Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Seven thematic units were identified as being associated with states of mind preceding a near-lethal suicide attempt. Results suggest that mental states and psychological processes preceding an NLS attempt are highly variable and embedded in longer-term developmental and characterological vulnerabilities. Participants reported efforts to conceal their imminent suicidal intent from their treatment providers and other sources of interpersonal support. States of mind preceding NLS attempts were found in this study to evolve in the context of developmental psychopathology, characterized by dimensional aspects that were multidetermined, interactive, and highly individual. Our findings lend support for approaches to treatment of suicidal individuals that emphasize understanding of highly specific elements of personal history and psychological vulnerabilities and the development of personalized interventions for suicide.

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States of mind preceding a near-lethal suicide attempt: A mixed methods study.

Tillman¹,

Stevens²,

Lewis³

2022

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…In order to solve the above problems, scholars have carried out research and exploration on the multichannel remote visualization of mental health education. The application of visualization technology in physical and mental health detection and evaluation is another important research topic of visualization in physical and mental health education, and its research results are very lacking [ 23 – 25 ]. At present, scholars only apply visualization technology to the presentation of data results.…”

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An Intelligent Clinical Psychological Assessment Method Based on AHP-LSSVR Model

Wang

2022

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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Clinical psychology is a branch of applied psychology. Clinical psychology has a clear understanding of individual behavior ability and behavior characteristics through psychological measurement analysis, observation, and other methods and combines the situation learned from individual psychosomatic diagnosis and life history with the observation and analysis of individual living conditions. Psychological quality and its evaluation methods have been widely used in many fields, which has greatly promoted the development of this field. However, the current assessment methods are mainly based on a simple statistical analysis, and the results are not accurate. To this end, this article proposes the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and least-squares support vector regression algorithm (LSSVR). Specifically, through the construction of the specific object’s psychological quality evaluation index system, the design and implementation of the psychological quality evaluation model based on AHP-LSSVR and the proposed method were discussed in the experiment.

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“…We found no study that systematically evaluated and compared measures of mental pain to help clinicians and researchers choose appropriate scales for specific uses. A few narrative reviews cover some measures of mental pain, but these studies have three limitations 2 7 27. First, they were not systematic and might have missed relevant measures.…”

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How to measure mental pain: a systematic review assessing measures of mental pain

Charvet¹,

Boutron

Morvan

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Evid Based Mental Health

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QuestionAlthough mental pain is present in many mental disorders and is a predictor of suicide, it is rarely investigated in research or treated in care. A valid tool to measure it is a necessary first step towards better understanding, predicting and ultimately relieving this pain.Study selection and analysisFollowing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, we performed a systematic review to identify all published standardised measures of mental pain. We used qualitative content analysis to evaluate the similarity of each measure, quantified via Jaccard Index scores ranging from no similarity (0) to full similarity (1). Finally, using the Consensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) methodology, we evaluated each measure’s development (assessing 35 features), its content validity (31 features) and if the latter was rated at least adequate, its other psychometric properties.FindingsWe identified 10 self-reported scales of mental pain in 2658 screened studies relying on diverse definitions of this construct. The highest average similarity coefficient for any given measure was 0.24, indicative of weak similarity (individual pairwise coefficients from 0 to 0.5). Little to no information was provided regarding the development and the content validity of all 10 scales. Therefore, their development and content validity were rated ‘inadequate’ or ‘doubtful’.Conclusions and clinical implicationsThere is not enough evidence of validity to recommend using one measure over others in research or clinical practice. Heterogeneous use of disparate measures across studies limits comparison and combination of their results in meta-analyses. Development by all stakeholders (especially patients) of a consensual patient-reported measure for mental pain is needed.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021242679.

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Assessment of Psychological Pain in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples: A Preliminary Investigation Using the Psychic Pain Scale

Cited by 11 publications

References 39 publications

States of mind preceding a near-lethal suicide attempt: A mixed methods study.

States of mind preceding a near-lethal suicide attempt: A mixed methods study.

An Intelligent Clinical Psychological Assessment Method Based on AHP-LSSVR Model

How to measure mental pain: a systematic review assessing measures of mental pain

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