Educational achievement and chronic pain disability: Mediating role of pain-related cognitions

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 286-296

  Roth, Randy S ^a   Geisser, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Educational attainment; Pain beliefs; Pain disability; SES

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0036040367     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002508-200209000-00003     Document Type: Article

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