Pain Research and Management (Jan 2002)

The Effects of Catastrophic Thinking about Pain on Attentional Interference by Pain: No Mediation of Negative Affectivity in Healthy Volunteers and in Patients with Low Back Pain

G Crombez,
C Eccleston,
A Van den Broeck,
B Van Houdenhove,
L Goubert

Affiliations

G Crombez: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
C Eccleston: University of Bath, Bath, UK
A Van den Broeck: Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
B Van Houdenhove: Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
L Goubert: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2002/576792
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 31 – 39

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that catastrophic thinking about pain enhances attentional interference in healthy volunteers.

Published in Pain Research and Management

ISSN: 1203-6765 (Print); 1918-1523 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7040

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