• K M Gil, J W Carson, J A Sedway, L S Porter, J J Schaeffer, and E Orringer.
• Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-3270, USA.
• Health Psychol. 2000 Jan 1; 19 (1): 85-90.

AbstractThis study examined the 3-month follow-up effects of a pain coping skills intervention in African American adults with sickle cell disease. Sixty-seven participants were randomly assigned to either a coping skills condition or a disease-education control condition. Multivariate analyses applied to summary measures of coping, laboratory pain perception, and clinical measures indicated that participants in the coping intervention reported significantly lower laboratory pain and significantly higher coping attempts at 3-month follow-up in comparison with the control condition. Multilevel random effects models applied to prospective daily diaries of daily pain, health care contacts, and coping practice indicated that on pain days when participants practiced their strategies, they had less major health care contacts in comparison with days when they did not use strategies.

18 keywords...

hide…