Payne Bonnie, Norfleet Mary Ann
Mental Research Institute, 555 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA 94301 U.S.A.
Pain. 1986 Jul;26(1):1-22. doi: 10.1016/0304-3959(86)90169-7.
This paper reviews the literature on chronic pain patients and their families. The review focuses on family and marital variables correlated with pain, conceptualizations of the family's role in maintaining pain, reports of family treatment and follow-up studies of the family's impact on treatment. Although research in this field is generally weak methodologically, and the mechanisms whereby the family affects chronic pain are still little understood, the authors conclude that family characteristics and behaviors contribute strongly to a chronic pain problem and they have a significant influence on treatment outcome.
本文回顾了关于慢性疼痛患者及其家庭的文献。该综述聚焦于与疼痛相关的家庭及婚姻变量、家庭在维持疼痛中所起作用的概念化、家庭治疗报告以及家庭对治疗影响的随访研究。尽管该领域的研究在方法上普遍薄弱，且家庭影响慢性疼痛的机制仍鲜为人知，但作者得出结论，家庭特征和行为在很大程度上导致了慢性疼痛问题，并且对治疗结果有重大影响。
