Mindfulness and Pain Catastrophizing on Chronic Disease Patients

Abstract

So many patients experience chronic physical illness, some of them feel the pain excessively, which called pain catastrophizing. Pain catastrophizing causes the patient to feel excessive pain. It makes the patient become stress or depression. One that can relieve the pain catastrophizing is mindfulness. The aim of this research is to examine the correlation between mindfulness with pain catastrophizing in patients with chronic diseases. The participants were 40 patients with chronic disease who got treatment at the hospital. The instrument used in this research used Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale (PHLMS) and the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS). The research used quantitative approach with analyses simple linear regression. The result shows that there is no significant relationship between mindfulness and pain catastrophizing.