Stephen L. Clancy's research while affiliated with University of Washington Seattle and other places

Publications (2)

Article
Recent studies have suggested that spouses of chronic pain patients are at risk for emotional and marital maladjustment. This study explored the role of patient and spouse gender in mediating the effects of chronic pain on the spouse's adjustment. Eight-three chronic low back pain patients and their spouses completed measures of physical and psycho...
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Seventy-four chronic low back pain patients in a study assessing the effectiveness of group outpatient cognitive-behavioral and operant behavioral treatment completed the Coping Strategy Questionnaire (CSQ) and measures of pain, depression, and functional disability pre- and post-treatment. The previously reported factor structure of the CSQ was ge...

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... 1. Marital dissatisfaction [21,59,60] 2. Divorce/Separation [61][62][63][64][65] 3. Women in an abusive spousal relationship [66][67][68][69][70] 4. Punitive responses of one spouse toward the other's An engineering analogy is useful in representing the consequence of weakened ties to larger social contexts: impact in relation to supporting surface [58]. In this analogy, supporting surface would be the social context composed of family and workplace, and impact would be the common predicament of back pain that has not become CBP, which includes flares-ups that subside as well as persistence at a mild level. ...
... Praying, hoping, and catastrophising have been associated with more anticipatory anxiety, greater anxiety during painful activity, and reduced range of motion from the onset of pain increase to the point of pain tolerance [6]. Contradictory findings were found in a study showing that increased use of praying and hoping strategies following treatment were significantly related to decreases in reported pain intensity [7]. However, the use of a non-validated pain diary of verbally reported pain intensity, and merging praying/hoping with diverting attention may have influenced findings in the latter. ...