• Pain Res Manag · Jan 2022

    Fear of Pain as a Predictor for Postoperative Pain Intensity among the Patients Undergoing Thoracoscopic Surgery.

    • Yang Luo, Jingting He, Lihong Bao, Heng Meng, Cuihuan Hu, and Quan Chen.
    • Department of Thoracic Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
    • Pain Res Manag. 2022 Jan 1; 2022: 2201501.

    BackgroundFear of pain (FOP) has been recognized as an influential moderator and determinant of the perception and disability of chronic pain. However, studies on FOP in postoperative acute pain are few and inconsistent.ObjectiveTo explore whether FOP is related to pain intensity after thoracic surgery and provide a reference for FOP study in postoperative pain.MethodsFrom February to March 2022, 89 patients completed Chinese Version of Fear of Pain-9 Items (FOP-9), Chinese version of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI, including least, worst, and average pain) and Simplified Chinese version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS). Correlation analyses and mediation analyses were used for exploring the relationship between factors.ResultsMediation analyses showed that the total effects of FOP-9 on BPI all were significant (least pain: effect = 0.085, p=0.013, 95% CI = 0.019∼0.151; worst pain: effect = 0.116, p=0.004, 95% CI = 0.037∼0.196; average pain: effect = 0.102, p=0.005, 95% CI = 0.031∼0.174) indicating that FOP-9 was a predictor to BPI. The 95% bias-corrected bootstrap confidence interval of estimate of indirect effect between FOP-9 and least pain/average pain through PCS was -0.036∼0.024 and -0.003∼0.069 (all contain zero), which indicated that PCS is not a mediator between FOP-9 and least pain/average pain. However, the estimate of indirect effect between FOP-9 and worst pain through PCS were 0.048 (95% CI = 0.095∼0.088), and direct effect was not statistically significant (95% CI = -0.017∼0.153), indicating that PCS acted as a complete intermediary between FOP-9 and worst pain. FOP-9 and PCS showed significant positive prediction effect on worst pain.ConclusionsBoth trait FOP and state FOP were associated with higher postoperative pain reports after thoracic surgery. Trait FOP influences postoperative pain through the mediating effect of state FOP.Copyright © 2022 Yang Luo et al.

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