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Evaluating the Impact on Pain Perceptions, Pain Intensity, and Physical Activity of a Mobile App to Empower Employees With Musculoskeletal Pain: Mixed Methods Pilot Study KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: Mobile apps present opportunities to empower employees with musculoskeletal pain and reduce long-term absenteeism. However, adoption remains limited because of a lack of empirical evidence and challenges in user-friendly design. OBJECTIVE: This pilot study aimed to evaluate the potential effects of a fully automated, app-based pain management intervention tailored for employees. Specifically, the study aimed to (1) assess the effect ...
The association between pain beliefs and pain intensity and/or disability in people with shoulder pain: a systematic review Universiteit Antwerpen
Background Pain beliefs might play a role in the development, transition, and perpetuation of shoulder pain. Objective To systematically review and critically appraise the association and the predictive value of pain beliefs on pain intensity and/or disability in shoulder pain. Methods An electronic search of PubMed, EBSCOhost, AMED, CINAHL, EMBASE, and PubPsych, and grey literature was searched from inception to July 2017. Study selection was ...
Conditioned Pain Modulation and Temporal Summation of Pain in Patients With Traumatic and Non-Specific Neck Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In patients with neck pain, it is unclear whether pain inhibition and facilitation endogenous pain mechanisms are altered. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to improve their understanding by assessing conditioned pain modulation (CPM) and temporal summation of pain (TSP) in patients with neck pain associated with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) or of a nonspecific neck pain (NSNP) nature compared to pain-free controls. Very low ...
Hide Your Pain: Social Threat Increases Pain Reports and Aggression, but Reduces Facial Pain Expression and Empathy KU Leuven Universiteit Gent
Earlier research studying the effects of social threat on the experience and expression of pain led to mixed results. In this study, female participants (N = 32) came to the lab with 2 confederates. Both confederates administered a total of 10 painful electrocutaneous stimuli to the participant. The framing of the administration was manipulated in a within-subjects design: In the low social threat condition the participant was told that the ...
The Effect of a Pain Educational Video Upon Child Pain-Related Memory and the Moderating Role of Parental Pain- and Non-Pain-Attending Verbalizations Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
OBJECTIVES: Early memories of pain contribute to fear and may underlie the maintenance and development of chronic pain into adulthood. Accordingly, understanding determinants that may impact children's pain memory development is key. This study examined (a) the effect of a brief engaging pain educational video in healthy children before undergoing an experimental pain task upon children's recalled pain intensity and pain-related fear and (b) ...
No pain no gain? Pursuing a competing goal inhibits avoidance behavior Universiteit Gent
Attempts to control pain prioritize attention towards signals of pain: an experimental study Universiteit Gent
Parental emotional responses to their child's pain: The role of dispositional empathy and catastrophizing about their child's pain UCLL Universiteit Gent
Little is known about how a child’s experience of pain affects his or her parents. Using a vignette methodology, this study investigated the emotional responses of parents who were asked to imagine different painful situations that their child might experience. A sample of 650 parents of school children (325 mothers; 325 fathers) read 8 short stories/vignettes about their child, which varied in terms of type of situation (pain vs other ...