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dc.contributor.authorDay, Melissa A
dc.contributor.authorWard, L Charles
dc.contributor.authorThorn, Beverly E
dc.contributor.authorLang, Cathryne P
dc.contributor.authorNewton-John, Toby RO
dc.contributor.authorEhde, Dawn M
dc.contributor.authorJensen, Mark P
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-19T21:44:05Z
dc.date.available2020-03-19T21:44:05Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1526-2375
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/pm/pnx010
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/392377
dc.description.abstractObjective: Cognitive processes may be characterized as how individuals think, whereas cognitive content constitutes what individuals think. Both cognitive processes and cognitive content are theorized to play important roles in chronic pain adjustment, and treatments have been developed to target both. However, the evaluation of treatments that target cognitive processes is limited because extant measures do not satisfactorily separate cognitive process from cognitive content. The current study aimed to develop a self-report inventory of potentially adaptive and presumed maladaptive attentional processes that may occur when someone is experiencing pain. Methods: Scales were derived from a large item pool by successively applying confirmatory factor analysis to item data from two undergraduate samples (N = 393 and 233). Results: Items, which were generated to avoid confounding of cognitive content with cognitive processes, represented nine constructs: Suppression, Distraction, Enhancement, Dissociation, Reappraisal, Absorption, Rumination, Nonjudgment, and Acceptance. The resulting nine scales formed the Pain-Related Cognitive Process Questionnaire (PCPQ), and scale correlations produced four conceptually distinct composite scales: Pain Diversion, Pain Distancing, Pain Focus, and Pain Openness. Internal consistency reliabilities of the nine scales were adequate (α ≥ 0.70) to good, and the four composite scales had α values of 0.79 or higher. Correlations with pain-related criterion variables were generally consistent with putative constructs. Conclusions: The developed PCPQ scales offer a comprehensive assessment of important cognitive processes specific to pain. Overall, the findings suggest that the PCPQ scales may prove useful for evaluating the role of pain-related cognitive processes in studies of chronic pain.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom269
dc.relation.ispartofpageto283
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPain Medicine
dc.relation.ispartofvolume19
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth services and systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical and health psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3214
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5203
dc.titleThe Pain-Related Cognitive Processes Questionnaire: Development and Validation
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDay, MA; Ward, LC; Thorn, BE; Lang, CP; Newton-John, TRO; Ehde, DM; Jensen, MP, The Pain-Related Cognitive Processes Questionnaire: Development and Validation, Pain Medicine, 2018, 19 (2), pp. 269-283
dc.date.updated2020-03-17T02:01:35Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2018 American Academy of Pain Medicine. Published by Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Pain Medicine following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version The Pain-Related Cognitive Processes Questionnaire: Development and Validation, Tree Physiology, Volume 19, Issue 2, February 2018 is available online at: 10.1093/pm/pnx010
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gro.griffith.authorLang, Cathryne P.


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