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Despite the growing body of research on chronic pain in adults with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding of the influence of psychological factors on pain experienced by individuals with this condition. This study aims to delve into the correlation between personality traits and various aspects of pain,...
Chronic pain is a common experience in osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). However, there are few studies on this topic, and none of them emerge from psychology as a discipline. The purpose of this work is to describe the frequency of chronic pain and its characteristics in a large sample of adults with OI, as well as its relationship with clinical, soci...
Introducción:
La radiofrecuencia (RF) convencional es una de las técnicas invasivas más utilizadas para tratar diversos síndromes de dolor. Sin embargo, algunos estudios reflejan la necesidad de un abordaje más amplio para conseguir una recuperación global del paciente. En el ámbito de la psicología se han propuesto tratamientos multicomponentes qu...
Los objetivos: analizar las propiedades psicométricas de una escala breve de ansiedad ante la evaluación académica y comprobar si hay diferencias entre los alumnos que cursan una materia del área de metodología o de otras áreas. La muestra está formada por 404 alumnos de Psicología (M = 21.03 años, DT = 5.45). El 56.4% reciben formación en metodolo...
Objective:
To evaluate the prevalence of burnout among physicians treating patients with chronic pain and to assess the potential relationships between the presence of burnout and patients' clinical outcomes such as pain relief, satisfaction with pain control, and quality of life.
Design:
An observational, prospective, and noncomparative study....
Introduction: One of the psychological aspects associated with the experience of chronic pain have been personality profiles and, related to them, resilience. In chronic pain, resilience refers to both the ability to go back and the repetition of problems. In this field, however, there is no reference to whether resilience is related to personality...
Introduction: A review of the CAD-R (Cuestionario de afrontamiento al dolor reducido) (1) is presented in a sample of 4.389 patients diagnosed with chronic pain derived from a spanish multicenter study (2). Material and method: The factorial structure is analyzed by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory (CFA), as well as reliability (i...
Objective:
To assess the impact of the empathy of physicians, perceived by patients with chronic pain, regarding pain relief and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL).
Methods:
A prospective noninterventional study was conducted in 2,898 patients with moderate to severe chronic pain who were referred to pain clinics. The same physician visited...
The goals of the study are: 1) to analyze the factorial structure of the Coping to Stress Questionnaire for Oncologic Patients instrument by the use of a factorial exploratory and confirmatory analysis; 2) to estimate the internal reliability of the factors; 3) to describe the distribution of the factors; 4) to analyze the mean differences of the c...
The evolutionary psychological approach links evolved mechanisms of disease-avoidance to prejudices against individuals perceived as a threat to health. Perceived vulnerability to disease works as an adaptive strategy which explains why individuals perceived as a source of contagion are avoided. The self-report Perceived Vulnerability to Disease Qu...
Systemic lupus erythematosus is a chronic autoimmune disease, inflammatory and multisystem. It can be severe and causes outbreaks of exacerbation and remission. The patients quality of life is a parameter in the development of their disease in order to influence its improvement. The present study is an approach to the study of the quality of life o...
El interés por el afrontamiento (coping) ante el estrés y el interés por el afrontamiento ante la enfermedad, entendida ésta como estresor comenza-ron a desarrollarse sobre la década de los 60 y 70, destacando la impor-tancia que tienen las actitudes de un individuo ante un problema y, por extensión, las actitudes de un enfermo hacia la enfermedad....
In this study with a sample of chronic pain patient, personality profiles defined as the individual's scores on all five dimensions (NEO-FFI) are used, to establish relations with coping, quality of life, and adaptation to disease. After a cluster analysis two groups have been obtained: the first one being a trend to intermediate scores in all five...
KEY WORDS: Personality, Big Five, Coping, Quality of Life, Chronic Pain. In this study with a sample of chronic pain patient, personality profiles defined as the individual's scores on all five dimensions (NEO-FFI) are used, to establish relations with coping, quality of life, and adaptation to disease. After a cluster analysis two groups have been...
We approach the problem about relationships between personality dimensions and the use of coping strategies in chronic pain patients. The most frequently used theoretical model in the area of stress and its relation to pain is the transactional model, taking into account that the incorporation of personality traits improves predictions via coping i...
Se aborda la problemática referida a las relaciones existentes entre las dimensiones de personalidad y el empleo de las estrategias de afrontamiento en enfermos con dolor crónico. El modelo teórico más empleado en el ámbito del estrés y su relación con el dolor es el modelo transaccional, considerando que la inclusión de rasgos de personalidad mejo...
When a relative is admitted to a hospital, both the patient and his/her family are psychologically and socially affected -experiencing stress, disorganization, helplessness, etc. Severe anxiety responses of relatives when the patient is admitted to ICU predict the later development of a PTSD and hence, it appears necessary to implement preventive m...
When a relative is admitted to a hospital, both the patient and his/her family are psychologically and socially affected -experiencing stress, disorganization, helplessness, etc. Severe anxiety responses of relatives when the patient is admitted to ICU predict the later development of a PTSD and hence, it appears necessary to implement preventive m...
RESuMEN En el presente trabajo se hace un análisis de los princi-pales planteamientos acerca de la Filosofía y Tareas que debe cumplir la intervención psicológica en enfermos de cáncer. Posteriormente se intenta comprobar en que medida dichos principios se tienen en cuenta en los trabajos de investigación. Para ello se analizan las últimas publicac...
RESuMEN En el presente trabajo se hace un análisis de los princi-pales planteamientos acerca de la Filosofía y Tareas que debe cumplir la intervención psicológica en enfermos de cáncer. Posteriormente se intenta comprobar en que medida dichos principios se tienen en cuenta en los trabajos de investigación. Para ello se analizan las últimas publicac...
From the time when a disease whose treatment is going to require hospitalization for a surgical intervention is diagnosed, both the patient and his/her family members or primary caretakers are involved in a process that may involve the experience of several emotional alterations. This work focuses on the description of the different psychological p...
From the time when a disease whose treatment is going to require hospitalization for a surgical intervention is diagnosed, both the patient and his/her family members or primary caretakers are involved in a process that may involve the experience of several emotional alterations. This work focuses on the description of the different psychological p...
Introducción: El Índice de Lattinen (IL) es un instrumento de medida ampliamente utilizado en el ámbito del tratamiento e investigación del dolor crónico. Sin embargo su origen es confuso, no existiendo criterios de fiabilidad y validez que permitan utilizar este instrumento con todas las garantías científicas. Todo esto ha generado la necesidad de...
Introduction: Lattinen Index (IL) is an instrument of measurement widely used in the area of the treatment and investigation of the chronic pain. Nevertheless its source is confused, and the reliability and validity criteria for the use of this instrument with all the scientific guarantees, don't exist. All that has generated the need of studies di...
En las últimas décadas el concepto de calidad de vida ( calidad de vida) ha sido cada vez más utilizado como control del efecto de la enfermedad en las personas y del beneficio percibido de los tratamientos. En el ámbito del dolor crónico, se ha planteado la existencia de diferentes perfiles de calidad de vida, sin embargo, no existe en la literatu...
OBJETIVO: Realización de una revisión de la literatura sobre aspectos psicológicos relacionados con el dolor en pacientes oncológicos, así como de los diferentes modelos de intervención psicológica que han mostrado su efectividad en el tratamiento del dolor. MÉTODO: La revisión bibliográfica se realizó a través de las bases de datos Medline y PsycI...
Durante la estancia de un paciente en una UCI, sus familiares pueden experimentar: estrés, ansiedad, des-organización, sentimientos de desamparo, confusión, preocupación, irritabilidad, culpa, frustración, depresión, incertidumbre, etc., siendo las necesidades básicas manifestadas por los mismos el mantenimiento de la esperanza, confianza, la exist...
El objetivo de este estudio descriptivo mediante encuestas consiste en
establecer la influencia de los procesos mediadores en la adaptación del paciente a su
dolor, utilizando como criterio el nivel de ansiedad rasgo y depresión. La finalidad del
estudio se centra en determinar qué variables de valoración y qué estrategias de afrontamiento
predicen...
Objective: The objective of this research was to study the relations and interactions between cognitive assessment procedures and coping strategies proposed in the Lazarus and Folkman model (1984) as processes mediating the adaptation of patients to their pain, using as adaptation criteria the level of anxiety (STAI/R) and depression (BDI), in orde...
Coping has been turned over the last decades in one of the most important topics to board the patient with chronic pain. Given the importance of considering and evaluating the different forms that the individual has to cope with pain, different instruments in the last decades have been developed to evaluate the above mentioned dimension. The coping...
Objective: The objective of this research focused on the study of coping strategies used by patients to face pain, these being defined as the thoughts and actions taken by individuals in their efforts to handle pain and their impact on the patient quality of life. Material and methods: The study population included 32 women diagnosed of fibromyalgi...
ORIGINAL 407 Soriano J, Monsalve V. Validation of the reduced chro-nic pain coping questionnaire (CAD-R). Rev Soc Esp Dolor 2004; 11: 407-414. SUMMARY Coping has been turned over the last decades in one of the most important topics to board the patient with chron-ic pain. Given the importance of considering and evaluat-ing the different forms that...
Introduction: There are several instruments to evaluate coping strategies. However, the analysis of the application of this tests with different samples outlines its statistical inconsistency. On the other hand it exists a deficit in the design of scales or questionnaires that value the coping strategies in patient with chronic pain in a Spanish sa...
The aim of the present work has been to asses to what extent the contents of the apprai sal and the ways of coping with the hassles could be explained on the basis of four personality dimensions: positive and negative affect, optimism, perfectionism and ale xithymia. Moreover, it has been tested to what extent the explicit ways of coping are infl...
In this article we analyze the variables of anxiety and depression in two different situations: a combat situation and taking an exam. We used the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale questionnaire with a sample of 621 subjects, divided in four groups, two groups of soldiers, one of them in situation of combat (SBH) and the other one on the milita...
Chronic pain is considered a disease and, consequently, coping strategies used are important elements in its treatment. The transactional theoretical model raised by Lazarus and Folkman (1984) is usually used to explain coping dynamic. From this perspective, we have reviewed the principal aspects influencing the coping: precedents (personality attr...
In this work is carried out a brief review to the coping concept and their employment in the psycooncology. The theoretical model of coping strategies that has been used is generally the one outlined by Lazarus and Folkman (1984), however it presents diverse problems, because the empiric environment of the psycooncology has propitiated the negligen...