Relationship Between Pain-coping Strategies, Catastrophizing to Pain and Severity of Depression

Author(s):  
Borjanka Batinic
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S522-S522
Author(s):  
B. Batinic ◽  
J. Nesvanulica ◽  
I. Stankovic

IntroductionStudies have shown that somatic pain influences the severity of major depressive disorder (MDD), and could be moderated through pain coping strategies and not catastrophizing to pain.ObjectivesThe aim of the study was to ascertain the correlation between pain coping strategies, catastrophizing to pain and severity of depression.MethodsThe study sample consisted of 82 patients diagnosed with MDD, aged between 18 and 65 years old (M = 46.21). Assessment instruments included The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), The Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form-BPISF (consisting of two subscales: BPI1-intensity of pain, and BPI2-interference with daily functioning), The Vanderbilt Pain Management Inventory-VPMI (consisting of active-VPMIAC and passive pain coping mechanism subscales-VPMIPC) and The Pain Catastrophizing Scale-PCS (consisting of subscales of rumination, exaggeration and helplessness).ResultsThe average BDI-II score was 27.21 (SD = 11.53); the average score at BPI1 was 2.99 (SD = 2.83) and 3.35 (SD = 3.26) at BPI2; the average scores on the active coping mechanism subscale was 20.72 (SD = 4.87), and on the passive coping mechanism subscale 34.05 (SD = 7.86); the average catastrophizing scale score was 28.78 (SD = 10.72). Active mechanism of pain coping has shown significant negative correlation with depression (r = –0.227, P > 0.05) while passive mechanism of pain coping has shown significant positive correlation with depression (r = 0.269, P > 0.05). Intensity of depression was significantly positively correlated with intensity of catastrophizing to pain (r = 0.358, P > 0.01) and its derivatives: rumination, exaggeration and helplessness.ConclusionInterventions focusing on targeting catastrophizing to pain and pain coping mechanisms should be considered in the treatment of patients with MDD with somatic pain.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.


2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Barry ◽  
J. Elander

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
Jean C. Beckham ◽  
John C. Barefoot ◽  
Thomas L. Haney ◽  
Redford B. Williams ◽  
Daniel B. Mark

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 717-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inger Utne ◽  
Christine Miaskowski ◽  
Kristin Bjordal ◽  
Steven M. Paul ◽  
Gunnhild Jakobsen ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Sikorová ◽  
Lucie Rajmová

1984 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 260???265 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH GEDEN ◽  
NIELS BECK ◽  
GREGORY HAUGE ◽  
SUSAN POHLMAN

mHealth ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 35-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan L. Ranney ◽  
Cassandra Duarte ◽  
Janette Baird ◽  
Emily J. Patry ◽  
Traci C. Green

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S180-S180
Author(s):  
A. Homayouni ◽  
R. Ahmadi ◽  
G. Nikpour

IntroductionThe study aimed to assess the relationship between mental disorders symptoms with pain coping strategies in dentistry clinics.MethodOne hundred and twenty people with dental pain that attended in dentistry clinics were randomly selected and responded to Rosenstein and Keefe's Pain Coping Strategies Questionnaire (PCSQ) and Derogatis's Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R). PCSQ assesses six pain coping strategies: diverting attention, reinterpretation pain sensation, self-negotiation, ignoring pain, disastrous thought, hope–praying, and SCL-90 measures nine dimensions: somatization, obsessive compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism. The data were analysed with Pearson correlation coefficient and independent t-test.ResultsFindings showed positive and significant relationship between disastrous thought with all mental disorders symptoms; and reinterpretation pain sensation with depression and anxiety. Also there is negative significant relationship between ignoring pain with obsessive compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity and somatization; and hope – praying with interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, paranoid ideation and psychoticism. Meanwhile there were significant differences in males and females. Females got more scores in ignoring pain than males, and males got more scores in anxiety, hostility and paranoid ideation tan females.DiscussionWith regard to findings, it is recommended that in addition to drug treatment, for changing the attitudes and thinking in patients with dental pain, psychiatrists and psychologists apply psychological treatments specially cognitive-behavior therapy to reduce abnormal thinking level about pain so that the length during of treatment declines, and as a results reduce the personality and health problems that is related with dental pain before and in during of drug treatment.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.


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