Metacognition, perseverative thinking, and pain catastrophizing: a moderated ‐mediation analysis
ConclusionsStrongly believing that thinking about pain helps you solve problems or cope with pain (positive metacognition), or that it is harmful and uncontrollable (negative metacognition), can increase the amount you worry or ruminate as pain increases. This is associated with increased pain catastrophizing. Identifying and modifying these unhelpful pain metacognitions may improve treatments for pain catastrophizing and thereby chronic pain generally.
Source: European Journal of Pain - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Robert Sch ütze,
Clare Rees,
Anne Smith,
Helen Slater,
Peter O'Sullivan Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
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