Let's talk about pain catastrophizing measures: An item content analysis

PeerJ

Volumn 2020, Issue 3, 2020, Pages

  Crombez, Geert ^a   De Paepe, Annick L ^a   Veirman, Elke ^a   Eccleston, Christopher ^b   Verleysen, Gregory ^a   Van Ryckeghem, Dimitri M L ^a,c,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Catastrophizing; Content validity; Pain; Questionnaires; Validity; Worrying

Indexed keywords

PAIN RELATED SELF STATEMENT SCALE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE ENDURANCE QUESTIONNAIRE; AWARENESS; CATASTROPHIZING; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE COPING STRATEGIES INVENTORY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTENT VALIDITY; COPING STRATEGIES QUESTIONNAIRE; DISABILITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN CATASTROPHIZING SCALE; PAIN COGNITION INVENTORY; PAIN COGNITION LIST; PAIN DISTRESS; PAIN VIGILANCE AND AWARENESS QUESTIONNAIRE; PATIENT WORRY; PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOME; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT;

EID: 85083636158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8643     Document Type: Article

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