Suppressing and attending to pain-related thoughts in chronic pain patients

Allison G. Harvey; Brian E. McGuire

doi:10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00150-3

Suppressing and attending to pain-related thoughts in chronic pain patients

Allison G. Harvey, Brian E. McGuire

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Abstract

Attempted suppression of pain-related thoughts was investigated in consecutive referrals for pain management (N=39). Participants monitored their pain-related thoughts for three 5-min periods. In period 1, all participants were instructed to think about anything. For period 2, participants were instructed to either suppress pain-related thoughts, attend to pain-related thoughts, or to continue to think about anything. In period 3, all participants were again instructed to think about anything. Participants instructed to attend to their pain reported more pain-related thoughts than suppressors and controls in both periods 2 and 3. Suppressors experienced reduced pain-related thoughts during period 2. There was no immediate enhancement or delayed increase. Copyright (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1117-1124
Number of pages	8
Journal	Behaviour Research and Therapy
Volume	38
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0005-7967(99)00150-3
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2000
Externally published	Yes

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