Selective attentional biases for physical threat in physical anxiety sensitivity

Keogh, Edmund; Dillon, Catherine; Georgiou, George; Hunt, Caroline

doi:10.1016/s0887-6185(01)00065-2

Cited by 121 publications

(107 citation statements)

References 48 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Depression, pain-related fear, and catastrophizing are associated with increased interference, awareness of pain, and impaired disengagement from pain, and can moderate the effects of attentional coping leading to poor clinical outcomes. 11,19,23,35,47,87,103,123,152,179,195 Similarly, fear of injury or harm has an influence on physical effort and activity. 199 Given such data, it is recommended that psychosocial outcome measures also be administered when assessing physical functioning, as changes, or the lack of changes, in physical functioning following an intervention may be accounted for by existing fear, catastrophizing, and depression.…”

Section: Considerations Regarding the Use Of Physical Functioning Meamentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of physical function and participation in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT/OMERACT recommendations

Taylor

Phillips

Patel

et al. 2016

Pain

159

156

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The development and consistent use of reliable and valid PROs and performance-based measures of physical functioning may expedite development of improved pain treatments, and standardization of these measures has the potential to facilitate comparison across studies. We provide recommendations to stimulate future methodological research to develop tools that are more robust, address consistency and standardization, and engage patients early in the tool development process. Assessment of Function4

show abstract

Section: Considerations Regarding the Use Of Physical Functioning Meamentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessment of physical function and participation in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT/OMERACT recommendations

Taylor

Phillips

Patel

et al. 2016

Pain

159

156

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Indeed, an individual's tendency towards anxiety about, and fear of, painful sensations, predicts physical complaints and treatment outcomes in chronic pain sufferers (McCracken et al, 1998(McCracken et al, , 1999, which may result in part from biased attention to pain-related cues (Asmundsen et al, 1997;Keogh, Dillon et al, 2001). Although the behavioral and clinical correlates of pain-related anxiety and fear have received increasing attention, to date, no studies have examined the neural systems mediating these relationships.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neural correlates of individual differences in pain-related fear and anxiety

Ochsner

Ludlow

Knierim

et al. 2006

Pain

201

113

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Although individual differences in fear and anxiety modulate the pain response and may even cause more suffering than the initiating physical stimulus, little is known about the neural systems mediating this relationship. The present study provided the first examination of the neural correlates of individual differences in the tendency to (1) feel anxious about the potentially negative implications of physical sensations, as measured by the anxiety sensitivity index (ASI), and (2) fear various types of physical pain, as indexed by the fear of pain questionnaire (FPQ). In separate sessions, participants completed these questionnaires and experienced alternating blocks of noxious thermal stimulation (45-50 °C) and neutral thermal stimulation (38 °C) during the collection of whole-brain fMRI data. Regression analyses demonstrated that during the experience of pain, ASI scores predicted activation of a medial prefrontal region associated with self-focused attention, whereas FPQ scores predicted activation of a ventral lateral frontal region associated with response regulation and anterior and posterior cingulate regions associated with monitoring and evaluation of affective responses. These functional relationships cannot be wholly explained by generalized anxiety (indexed by STAI-T scores), which did not significantly correlate with activation of any regions. The present findings may help clarify both the impact of individual differences in emotion on the neural correlates of pain, and the roles in anxiety, fear, and pain processing played by medial and orbitofrontal systems.

show abstract

“…Research has found that fearful pain patients are more vigilant regarding painrelated information than are less fearful patients (Asmundson et al, 1997;Keogh, Dillon, Georgiou & Hunt, 2001), who are more likely to distract themselves from pain-related material by attending to neutral information (Asmundson et al, 1997).…”

Section: Emotional Coping: Defenses and Distractionmentioning

confidence: 99%

When pain remains: Appraisals and adaptation

Busch¹

2007

PsycEXTRA Dataset

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Cover picture: © Photographer Sebastian Kaulitzki. Agency: Dreamstime.com Printed in Sweden by US-AB, Stockholm 2007 Distributor: Stockholm University Library. For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside that it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive. I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me. I wanna find one place…Bruce Springsteen, 1978. AbstractAs the number one cause of sick absenteeism and disability pension, musculoskeletal pain is considered a major health problem in Sweden and many other industrialized countries. Medical findings are often insufficient to explain the pain's intensity or duration, and psychological factors are known to be important in understanding the aetiology and maintenance of pain. The current thesis examines the relationship between non-specific chronic musculoskeletal pain and cognitions, emotions and behaviours. In Study I, chronic pain patients were interviewed about pain experiences and the results indicated that some patients use psychological defences to deal with chronic pain. Study II was an experimental approach set up to study the association between chronic pain and selective memory. In a pictorial memory game, no differences were found between patients and controls in the neutral game. In the pain-related game patients decreased -and controls improvedtheir performance, a finding discussed in terms of cognitive avoidance.Study III used questionnaire and register data to examine the predictive value of psychosocial variables on sustained pain-related sick absenteeism and the results showed sense of mastery and recovery beliefs to be especially important. The studies are discussed in terms of emotional and defensive coping and it is suggested that defences can be related to excessive activity, which may increase the risk of future relapses. It was suggested that an increased acceptance of pain, at both an individual and a societal level -would favour rehabilitation and return-to-work for those suffering from persistent pain.Key words: Chronic pain, musculoskeletal disorders, appraisals, coping, cognitive avoidance, identity, cognitive bias, psychological defences, acceptance, sick absenteeism. Svensk sammanfattning

show abstract

Selective attentional biases for physical threat in physical anxiety sensitivity

Cited by 121 publications

References 48 publications

Assessment of physical function and participation in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT/OMERACT recommendations

Assessment of physical function and participation in chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT/OMERACT recommendations

Neural correlates of individual differences in pain-related fear and anxiety

When pain remains: Appraisals and adaptation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About