Somatic focus/awareness: Relationship to negative affect and pain in chronic pain patients

European Journal of Pain

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-115

  O'Brien, Erin M ^a   Atchison, James W ^b   Gremillion, Henry A ^c   Waxenberg, Lori B ^a   Robinson, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Negative affect; Pennebaker inventory of limbic languidness (PILL); Sex differences; Somatic focus

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCGILL PAIN QUESTIONNAIRE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PENNEBAKER INVENTORY OF LIMBIC LANGUIDNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VARIANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 35748930242     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: 15322149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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