Pain-catastrophizing and fear-avoidance beliefs as mediators between post-traumatic stress symptoms and pain following whiplash injury - A prospective cohort study

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1241-1252 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.E. Andersen ◽  
K-I. Karstoft ◽  
O. Brink ◽  
A. Elklit
2020 ◽  
pp. 135910532094781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Devlin ◽  
Sara Casey ◽  
Scott Williams ◽  
Melita J Giummarra

This study investigated relationships between post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and pain disability. Fifty people with chronic pain (probable PTSD, n = 22) completed measures assessing pain interference, PTSS, fear avoidance, and pain self-efficacy. We hypothesized that people with probable PTSD would have higher fear avoidance and lower pain self-efficacy; and that PTSS would be indirectly associated with pain disability via fear avoidance and self-efficacy. People with probable PTSD had higher fear avoidance, but there were no differences in self-efficacy, pain severity or disability. There was an indirect association between PTSS and pain disability via fear avoidance, but not via self-efficacy.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1278840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Willem Frank Scheepstra ◽  
Minouk Esmée van Steijn ◽  
Lea Magdalena Dijksman ◽  
Maria Gabriel van Pampus ◽  
Udo Schumacher

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