Implicit affective evaluation of somatosensory sensations in patients with noncardiac chest pain

Schroeder, Stefanie; Gerlach, Alexander L.; Martin, Alexandra

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.04.002

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“…Whereas the sensory discriminative component tells more about the intensity and location of pain, the affective-motivational component tells about the meaning of the pain to the individual and is more closely related to the behaviour the pain triggers [23]. We did not separately observe signs of anxiety or stress among the Swedish speakers with poor second language proficiency, although anxiety sensitivity might contribute to the affective interpretations of somatic sensations [24]. Our present finding suggests that poor second language proficiency exposes Swedish speakers to communication difficulties with the Finnish speaking healthcare providers.…”

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confidence: 57%

Pain assessment in native and non-native language: difficulties in reporting the affective dimensions of pain

Mustajoki

Forsén

Kauppila

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Pain

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Abstract Background and aims The language in assessing intensity or quality of pain has been studied but the results have been inconsistent. The physicians’ language skills might affect the estimation of the severity of pain possibly leading to insufficient use of analgesics. Several interfering cultural factors have complicated studies aimed at exploring the language used to detect the quality of pain. We aimed to compare native and non-native language related qualitative aspects of pain chosen by Swedish speaking patients with diabetes. Methods In the study participated 10 Finnish and 51 Swedish speaking patients with diabetes. The Pain Detect-questionnaire was used for clarifying the patients’ pain and the mechanism of their pain (neuropathic or not) and for assessing the intensity and quality of pain. In addition, the patients completed the short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (sfMPQ) in Finnish (test I). After 30 min the subjects completed the sfMPQ a second time in their native language (test II). The Swedish speakers estimated their second language, Finnish, proficiency on a 5-graded scale. Results There were significantly more discrepancies between sfMPQ test I and test II among the Swedish speaking respondents who reported poor (hardly none) Finnish language proficiency compared with those with good Finnish proficiency. Discrepancies occurred especially between the affective qualities of pain. Conclusions Poor second language proficiency exposes Swedish speakers to pain communication difficulties related to the affective aspects of pain. Consequently, discordant language communication could cause underestimation of the severity of pain and pain undertreatment. Implications To ensure adequate pain treatment measuring the affective dimension of pain in the patient’s native language is crucial.

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Pain assessment in native and non-native language: difficulties in reporting the affective dimensions of pain

Mustajoki

Forsén

Kauppila

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Pain

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“…Previous studies have successfully identified relationships between MSS and pain using various instruments, including the AASP, SSAS, or GSS or simply several select items related to sensory sensitivity, despite not all sensory domains being equally represented. 34,41,44,45,53 This suggests some degree of flexibility with MSS assessment, likely due to the generalized nature of MSS, where adequate representation of a few core sensory domains, even if incomplete, may still be capable of detecting heightened CNS processing of sensory signals.…”

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Assessing Multisensory Sensitivity Across Scales: Using the Resulting Core Factors to Create the Multisensory Amplification Scale

Wang

Casares

Eilers

et al. 2022

The Journal of Pain

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“…These beliefs correlate with various ratings indicating the aversive quality of induced or existent bodily sensations, such as (pain) threshold and unpleasantness. Such beliefs are also reflected in behavioral evidence of a correlation between MUS, health anxiety, hypochondriasis and the automatic negative evaluation of both illness-related pictures (Jasper and Witthöft, 2013), illness words (Schreiber et al, 2014), and aversive tactile stimuli , although this effect was not found in patients with noncardiac chest pain (Schroeder et al, 2014). It is not clear whether such findings point to a cause or consequence of MUS.…”

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Symptoms and the body: Taking the inferential leap

Bergh

Witthöft

Petersen

et al. 2017

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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a b s t r a c tThe relationship between the conscious experience of physical symptoms and indicators of objective physiological dysfunction is highly variable and depends on characteristics of the person, the context and their interaction. This relationship often breaks down entirely in the case of "medically unexplained" or functional somatic symptoms, violating the basic assumption in medicine that physical symptoms have physiological causes. In this paper, we describe the prevailing theoretical approach to this problem and review the evidence pertaining to it. We then use the framework of predictive coding to propose a new and more comprehensive model of the body-symptom relationship that integrates existing concepts within a unifying framework that addresses many of the shortcomings of current theory. We describe the conditions under which a close correspondence between the experience of symptoms and objective physiology might be expected, and when they are likely to diverge. We conclude by exploring some theoretical and clinical implications of this new account.

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Implicit affective evaluation of somatosensory sensations in patients with noncardiac chest pain

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Pain assessment in native and non-native language: difficulties in reporting the affective dimensions of pain

Pain assessment in native and non-native language: difficulties in reporting the affective dimensions of pain

Assessing Multisensory Sensitivity Across Scales: Using the Resulting Core Factors to Create the Multisensory Amplification Scale

Symptoms and the body: Taking the inferential leap

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