健康个体对疼痛相关信息的选择性注意：疼痛与恐惧的作用。

Selective attention for pain-related information in healthy individuals: the role of pain and fear.

作者信息

Roelofs Jeffrey, Peters Madelon L, Vlaeyen Johan W S

机构信息

Department of Medical, Clinical and Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

出版信息

Eur J Pain. 2002;6(5):331-9. doi: 10.1016/s1090-3801(02)00021-6.

DOI:10.1016/s1090-3801(02)00021-6

PMID:12160507

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate whether pain itself or pain-related fear is crucial in eliciting attentional bias towards pain-related information in healthy individuals. The results from two successive experiments provide evidence that attentional bias does not take place as a function of pain-related fear or as a function of pain per se. Attentional bias for pain words was neither found to be related to trait variables like anxiety, depression, catastrophising, fear of pain, and pain vigilance. Implications of the results are discussed and directions for future research are provided.

摘要

本研究的目的是调查在健康个体中，疼痛本身还是与疼痛相关的恐惧在引发对疼痛相关信息的注意偏向方面至关重要。两个连续实验的结果提供了证据，表明注意偏向并非作为与疼痛相关的恐惧的函数或作为疼痛本身的函数而发生。对疼痛词汇的注意偏向既未被发现与焦虑、抑郁、灾难化、对疼痛的恐惧和疼痛警觉等特质变量相关。讨论了结果的意义并提供了未来研究的方向。