The role of helplessness, fear of pain, and passive pain-coping in chronic pain patients

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-251

  Samwel, Han J A ^a   Evers, Andrea W M ^a   Crul, Ben J P ^a   Kraaimaat, Floris W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Fear of pain; Helplessness; Pain coping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; PAIN CLINIC; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; PAIN CLINICS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33645743875     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ajp.0000173019.72365.f5     Document Type: Article

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