ANXIETY McCracken and Gross ( [1] ) looked at how anxiety affects chronic pain. They found "Generally, cognitive anxiety was associated with less overall coping with pain, whereas physiological anxiety was associated with a greater coping with pain. Escape and avoidance anxiety responses were associated with greater use of overt pain behaviors for coping." They suggested that "ca...

Tobacco smoking has been associated with the development and exacerbation of chronically painful conditions. Conversely, there is reason to believe that smokers may be motivated to use tobacco as a means of coping with their pain. To date, no controlled, experimental studies have tested for a causal relationship between pain and smoking motivation. The primary aim of the current study was to te...

Chronic pain is commonly treated by prescribing an opioid medication. For those suffering from both chronic pain and substance dependence, barriers to adequate pain management increase. This often causes both disorders to exacerbate one another. Effective treatment may also be hampered by opioid-induced hyperalgesia, tolerance, physical dependence, "chemical coping," and diminished physical and...

The infliction of pain on patients is part of the daily routine for many nurses, particularly those who work in burns units, but there has been little help available for nurses to develop useful ways of coping with such circumstances. Few researchers have considered how the ways that nurses manage their feelings about pain may provide insights into the reasons why available pain control methods...

INTRODUCTION Anxiety disorders have severe complications for a mother and her developing baby. A few studies have focused on pregnancy related anxiety and its risk factors including fear of childbirth. Therefore, the current study aimed to explore components and dimensions of this kind of anxiety. METHODS This qualitative study (conventional content analysis) was conducted with mothers who re...

The present study measured the effects of catastrophizing self-statements and positive coping self-statements on cold pressor-induced pain. Participants were 58 adult chronic pain patients with current facial pain. It was hypothesized that catastrophizing would lead to a decrease in pain endurance whereas positive coping would lead to an increase in pain endurance. It was also hypothesized that...

OBJECTIVE To examine relationships among coping, stress responses, pain, somatic symptoms, and anxious/depressed symptoms in a sample of children and adolescents with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP). METHOD We assessed parents' reports of coping and involuntary responses to stress in relation to pain, somatic symptoms, and symptoms of anxiety and depression in a sample of 174 children and adol...

background: breast cancer is the most common malignancy among iranian women and is a significant stressor in women’s life that may affect their coping strategies and quality of life. this study aimed to investigate coping strategies, quality of life and pain of women with breast cancer. materials and methods: this was a cross‑sectional study which held in seyed‑al shohada hospital and two priva...

Many models of pain give coping an important role in understanding adaptation to chronic pain. Among these, Lazarus and Folkman's cognitive-phenomenological model of stress and coping provides a theoretical framework to conceptualise stress phenomena and coping strategies related to chronic pain. Chronic pain often necessitates new coping skills. An understanding of the concept of coping and ho...

OBJECTIVE To identify predictors of pain at 1 year in patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis (EIP). METHODS Using a prospective design, patients were examined by a rheumatologist and completed questionnaires at baseline and at 1 year after symptom onset. Separate regression analyses were run for pain intensity, sensory pain, and affective pain. Age and sex were adjusted in cross-secti...