Pain beliefs: assessment and utility

Pain beliefs: assessment and utility.

When pain becomes persistent, patients may abandon previously held cultural or personal beliefs about pain to form new pain beliefs that are more consistent with their persistent pain experience. The Pain Beliefs and Perceptions Inventory (PBPI) is an instrument to assess these new beliefs. This paper presents 4 studies examining the utility of the PBPI. Two studies are factor analytic and supp...

Utility proportional beliefs

In game theory, basic solution concepts often conflict with experimental findings or intuitive reasoning. This fact is possibly due to the requirement that zero probability be assigned to irrational choices in these concepts. Here, we introduce the epistemic notion of common belief in utility proportional beliefs which also assigns positive probability to irrational choices, restricted however ...

Relationship between Pain-Related Beliefs and Pain Anxiety with Depression in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

 Aims and background: Chronic pain has many emotional and psychological pressures and is a complex psychological experience. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of pain-related beliefs and pain anxiety with depression in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Materials and methods: It was a descriptive-correlational study thus, among patients with rheumatoid arthritis in E...

Utility Assessment under Expected Utility and Rank Dependent Utility Assumptions

Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (PABS).

Description The PABS is a self-administered questionnaire designed to assess the strength of two treatment orientations of health care practitioners (HCPs) towards low back pain (LBP). The orientations are labelled: 'biomedical', where the HCP believes in a biomechanical model of disease, where disability and pain are consequences of specific tissue pathology and treatment is aimed at treating ...