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17207740

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-1-8
pubmed:abstractText
The purpose of this investigation was to clarify mixed findings reported in selective attention investigations. To accomplish this, recently published dot-probe data from 36 patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain and 29 healthy control participants were reanalyzed with consideration of fear of pain (FOP) as a categorical variable. FOP groups were identified by using a variety of strategies and represented differing conceptualizations of the FOP construct. Selective attention for sensory pain, affect pain, and health catastrophe words was assessed by using raw dot-probe detection latencies and the bias, congruency, and incongruency indices. Analysis of the raw detection latencies revealed no significant interactions that permit inferences regarding attentional shifts to or away from specific word types. Analyses of the attention indices revealed no evidence of pain-related selective attention as a function of FOP or the interaction between clinical status and FOP, regardless of the FOP categorization method used; however, for FOP groups derived by using the cluster method, participants with high FOP--all patients--exhibited hypervigilance for all word types on the dot-probe task when compared with those with low FOP. Implications for various categorical conceptualizations of FOP and future research directions are discussed. PERSPECTIVE: Fear of pain can be used to categorize people into groups more or less vulnerable to disabling effects of pain. When fear of pain groups are derived by using measures of general and pain-specific fearfulness, people with high fear of pain are likely to selectively attend all potentially threatening stimuli in their environment.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1526-5900
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
11-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Is high fear of pain associated with attentional biases for pain-related or general threat? A categorical reanalysis.
pubmed:affiliation
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. gordon.asmundson@uregina.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't