Measuring Counterdependency in Patients With Chronic Pain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19306208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert J Gregory (0000-0002-9284-6067, RELX Group (United States)), Sarah L Berry (0000-0002-1492-2159, RELX Group (United States)) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-345 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00006842-199905000-00013 |
| PMID | 10367614 |
| OpenAlex | W2042024887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 26 |
OBJECTIVE: Some reports have characterized patients with chronic pain as counterdependent, that is, having emotional suppression, idealization of relationships, strong work ethic, a caregiver role-identity, and self-reliance. However, research has been hampered because formal measures of these traits have been lacking. In this article, we describe a five-item self-report questionnaire, the Counterdependency Scale (CDS), designed to elicit each of these traits on a Likert scale. METHODS: The CDS was administered to 150 consecutive patients evaluated in an outpatient psychiatry consultation program. RESULTS: CDS scores were normally distributed and had significant interitem correlations and test-retest reliability (r = 0.68). As expected, subjects with chronic pain (N = 100) had higher mean CDS scores than those without chronic pain (t = 5.6, p = .000). CDS scores were independent of demographic variables and measures of anxiety, depression, alexithymia, and somatic amplification. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that counterdependency can be described by a distinct and measurable cluster of traits associated with chronic pain
Alexithymia · Anxiety · Chronic pain · Depression (economics) · Developmental psychology · Likert scale · Psychiatry · Psychometrics · Somatic anxiety · Clinical Psychology · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout · Medicine · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2004 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |