Effectiveness of spontaneous pain coping strategies for acute pain management

A laboratory study

Bibliographic Data

ID21391773
AuthorsAlmudena López‐López (0000-0002-4815-7846, Department of Psychology King Juan Carlos University Madrid Spain, corresponding author), Jose Luis González Gutierrez (0000-0001-5252-2247, Department of Psychology King Juan Carlos University Madrid Spain), Juan Carlos Pacho Hernández (0000-0003-3197-453X, Department of Psychology King Juan Carlos University Madrid Spain), Borja Matías‐Pompa (0000-0001-5170-2908, Department of Psychology King Juan Carlos University Madrid Spain), Irene Judith Muñoz Peña (0000-0002-1684-8853, Department of Psychology King Juan Carlos University Madrid Spain)
Year2023
Volume64
Issue3
Pages294-301
Publication date2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScandinavian Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0036-5564 • E-ISSN: 1467-9450
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjop.12893
PMID36575602
OpenAlexW4312213733
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited46

The aim of the present study has been to analyze the relationship between the use of not previously trained, diverse acute pain coping strategies and levels of pain intensity and pain tolerance in a group of healthy participants. Previous research has analyzed the usefulness of the training of these strategies after several training sessions, but adequate patient training requires a great deal of time. Two hundred and forty healthy people participated in the study. Pain coping strategies was evaluated with a version of CSQ‐S. Subsequently, the participants completed a cold pressor test and tolerance test. After that, subjects filled in the adaptation of the CSQ‐S about the strategies which they had employed throughout the test. Correlation analyses showed a positive relationship between pain intensity and catastrophizing, distractor behaviors, hoping and ignoring the pain. Pain tolerance correlated with self‐instructions, ignoring the pain, reinterpreting the pain, catastrophizing and faith and praying. Regression analyses showed that catastrophizing was found to be the strategy that most predicts the variance of pain intensity, and catastrophizing (negative) and ignoring the pain (positive) and praying (negative) were the most predictive ones for pain tolerance. This is the first laboratory study that identifies the more useful pain coping strategies which can be used by patients without previous training in an acute pain context. The results of this study could be useful in the development of protocols for nurses and other health professionals, especially for situations where potentially painful techniques are to be applied to patients

Anesthesia · Chronic pain · Cold pressor test · Context (archaeology) · Coping (psychology) · Pain catastrophizing · Pain management · Pain tolerance · Physical therapy · Psychiatry · Threshold of pain · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Pediatric Pain Management Techniques · Psychology

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