Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Psychol Health Med. 2021 Mar;26(3):289-297. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2020.1764598. Epub 2020 May 12.
Latinx individuals demonstrate significant pain-related health disparities compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Moreover, young adulthood (18-25 years of age) is a primary developmental window wherein pain-related health problems are first encountered and may be related to more severe somatic and mental health symptoms. Pain-related anxiety may be one mechanistic construct linking individual differences in the experience of pain intensity to poorer somatic experiences and mental health among Latinx young adults. Thus, the current study examined pain-related anxiety as an explanatory factor underlying the relationship between pain intensity and body vigilance, perceptions of health, worry, anxious arousal, and depressive symptoms among Latinx young adults. Participants included 401 Latinx young adults ( = 21 years; = 2.02; age range: 18-25 years; 83% female) at a large, southwestern university. Results revealed that individual differences in pain intensity had a significant indirect effect on the studied somatic and negative affect variables through pain-related anxiety. These novel findings suggest future work should continue to explore pain-related anxiety in the association between the experience of pain and somatic and mental health among Latinx young adults.
拉丁裔个体与其他种族/族裔群体相比，在与疼痛相关的健康差异方面表现出显著差异。此外，青年期（18-25 岁）是一个主要的发展窗口，在此期间首次遇到与疼痛相关的健康问题，并且可能与更严重的躯体和心理健康症状有关。与疼痛相关的焦虑可能是一种机制结构，将个体在疼痛强度体验方面的差异与拉丁裔青年成年人较差的躯体体验和心理健康联系起来。因此，本研究考察了与疼痛相关的焦虑作为疼痛强度与身体警觉性、健康感知、担忧、焦虑唤醒和抑郁症状之间关系的解释因素，在拉丁裔青年成年人中的作用。参与者包括来自一所大型西南部大学的 401 名拉丁裔青年成年人（年龄为 21 岁，标准差为 2.02，年龄范围：18-25 岁，83%为女性）。结果表明，疼痛强度的个体差异通过与疼痛相关的焦虑对所研究的躯体和负性情绪变量具有显著的间接影响。这些新发现表明，未来的研究应该继续探索拉丁裔青年成年人在疼痛体验与躯体和心理健康之间的关系中与疼痛相关的焦虑。
