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.
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Rehabilitation psychology · Feb 2012
Expanding the social communication model of pain: are adult attachment characteristics associated with observers' pain-related evaluations?
Evaluations of another's pain can have important implications in medical, employment, and social settings. Influenced by the Social Communication Model of Pain, this vignette-based study investigated the potential influence of characteristics of the person being evaluated (viz., the coping strategy used by an individual with chronic pain depicted in a vignette) and characteristics of those making evaluations (viz., self-reported attachment anxiety and avoidance of the study participants). The main hypothesis was that participants higher in attachment avoidance would be more critical in their evaluations than those lower in attachment avoidance. ⋯ The current findings suggest that chronic pain patients' coping styles influence evaluations made about them, and that evaluators' gender and attachment characteristics also have important effects on such evaluations.
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On behalf of the new editorial team, let me welcome you to this first issue of Rehabilitation Psychology under our leadership. We are excited and honored by this responsibility. We look forward to serving the readership, authors, and the entire rehabilitation community as we develop and grow the flagship journal of rehabilitation psychology. As part of the editorial transition, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on our history, define our mission, encourage our team, and explore our future. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).
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Rehabilitation psychology · Nov 2011
Deployment-related TBI, persistent postconcussive symptoms, PTSD, and depression in OEF/OIF veterans.
A substantial proportion of the more than 2 million service members who have served in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) have experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Understanding the long-term impact of TBI is complicated by the nonspecific nature of postconcussive symptoms (PCSs) and the high rates of co-occurrence among TBI, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression. The goal of the present research was to examine the relations among TBI, persistent PCSs, and symptoms of PTSD and depression among returning OEF/OIF veterans. ⋯ These findings highlight the importance of addressing persistent PCSs in order to facilitate the functional recovery of returning war veterans.