Psychosomatic medicine
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Psychosomatic medicine · Oct 2009
Comparative StudyPain catastrophizing in patients with noncardiac chest pain: relationships with pain, anxiety, and disability.
To examine the contributions of chest pain, anxiety, and pain catastrophizing to disability in 97 patients with noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) and to test whether chest pain and anxiety were related indirectly to greater disability via pain catastrophizing. ⋯ Chest pain and anxiety were directly related to greater disability and indirectly related to physical and psychosocial disability via pain catastrophizing. Efforts to improve functioning in patients with NCCP should consider addressing pain catastrophizing.