The Relationship of Pain Catastrophizing to Heightened Feelings of Distress

Pain Management Nursing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 73-80

  Block, Cady K ^a,b   Brock, Joy ^b  

^a Hampton Roads Radiology Associates   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MMPI; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 44149107326     PISSN: 15249042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmn.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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