Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
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Type D personality as a personality vulnerable to stress consists of negative affectivity and social inhibition, and it is related to symptoms and decreased quality of life in patients with chronic illness. ⋯ Type D personality was related to migraine symptoms, disability, and quality of life in patients with migraine.
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Sedentary behavior has been associated with musculoskeletal pain in school teachers. However, our hypothesis is that physical activity practice could mitigate this association. ⋯ High screen-based sedentary behavior was associated with musculoskeletal pain in public school teachers. However, this relationship was mitigated after the inclusion of confounding variables, including physical activity.
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One of the obstacles in chronic pain management is the attitude of healthcare professionals. Although literature reports that the negative attitudes of healthcare professionals such as stigmatizing their patients with chronic pain and applying inadequate treatment cause failure in chronic pain management, there is no scale to measure the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards patients with chronic pain. ⋯ Our study found that the scale for healthcare professionals' attitudes towards patients with chronic pain is a valid and reliable tool.
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Many outpatient chronic pain clinics administer extensive patient intake questionnaires to understand patients' pain and how it impacts their lives. At our institution's pain clinic, many patients include free text in these predominantly closed-ended questionnaires, but little is known about the content categories included in this free text. ⋯ People living with chronic pain appear motivated to add additional, unprompted information to their patient intake questionnaires. The results from this study may inform changes to chronic pain patient intake questionnaires which could facilitate improvements in chronic pain patient-health care provider communication.
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To describe and classify pain behaviors (facial and body) in brain-injured patients with a low level of consciousness before, during, and after the performance of painful and non-painful care procedures. ⋯ In this study involving brain-injured patients with a low level of consciousness, facial, body, and ventilation-related behaviors were more common during painful procedures. Agreement between evaluators to detect the presence or absence of these behaviors was substantial. These findings underscore the need to develop pain assessment measures specific to this patient population.