Rehabilitation psychology
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Although the content of thoughts has received a considerable amount of attention in pain research, the importance of thought processes (metacognitions) has received less attention. ⋯ The current findings indicate that metacognitions are associated with both pain control beliefs and catastrophizing and therefore may play an important role in the development or maintenance of pain-related cognitive content thought to influence patient functioning. Research is needed to determine whether treatments that encourage changes in both metacognitions and cognitive content are more effective than treatments that focus on cognitive content alone.
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Rehabilitation psychology · Aug 2012
Multicenter StudyRasch analysis of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in spinal cord injury.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), applied among persons with spinal cord injury (SCI), using Rasch analysis. ⋯ The results of the Rasch analyses support the use of the anxiety and depression subscales among people with SCI. However, further research is needed to confirm these findings and examine sensitivity to change of the HADS in SCI, which would support its use in longitudinal observational and intervention studies.