Active and passive coping strategies in chronic pain patients

Active and passive coping strategies in chronic pain patients

Snow-Turek AL; Norris MP; Tan G

Pain

1996

Female; Humans; Male; Pain; Pain Measurement; Adult; Questionnaires; Chronic disease; Aged; Middle Aged; Depression; Reproducibility of Results; Adaptation; Psychological; Sex Characteristics

This study assessed the validity of active and passive coping dimensions in chronic pain patients (n = 76) using the Coping Strategies Questionnaire and the Vanderbilt Pain Management Inventory. The validity of active and passive coping dimensions was supported; passive coping was strongly related to general psychological distress and depression, and active coping was associated with activity level and was inversely related to psychological distress. In addition, the Coping Strategies Questionnaire was found to be a more psychometrically sound measure of active and passive coping than the Vanderbilt Pain Management Inventory.

1996-03

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