Mental imagery in chronic pain: Prevalence and characteristics

Gosden, T.; Morris, Paul Graham; Ferreira, Nuno; Grady, Cheryl L.; Gillanders, David

doi:10.1002/j.1532-2149.2013.00409.x

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“…The results could have been influenced by a lack of exact knowledge of each therapy. Sixth, the response rate in our study (41.9%) was in the low range of other postal surveys on pain among the general population (ranging from 40.1% to 60.7%) (Hauser et al., ; Jakobsson and Larsson, ; Kurita et al., ; Landmark et al., ; Raftery et al., ; W. S. Wong and Fielding, ) but higher than another postal survey including patients from a Pain Center (21%) (Gosden et al., ). This could have introduced a selection bias.…”

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confidence: 51%

“…The results are expressed as the number of participants and percentage: n (%). Bouhassira et al, 2008;Hardt et al, 2008;Gosden et al, 2014), BMI (most frequently normal or overweight) (Vaegter et al, 2014), mean age (Gosden et al, 2014;Campbell et al, 2015) and inactivity because of health issues. The most frequent locations of pain were the back and a lower limb, similar to the results of other studies in Europe and the United States (Breivik et al, 2006;Hardt et al, 2008;Kurita et al, 2012).…”

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Level of readiness of chronic pain patients to practise active self‐care

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Faouzi

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European Journal of Pain

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Level of readiness of chronic pain patients to practise active self‐care

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Faouzi

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European Journal of Pain

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“…For example, more severe depression has been found among pain suffers who report experiencing mental imagery (Gosden et al 2014). Among patients with cancer, those with depression have been found to experience higher prevalence of negative intrusive images, with these linked to maladaptive coping (Brewin et al 1998).…”

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Mental Imagery in Depression: Phenomenology, Potential Mechanisms, and Treatment Implications

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Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol.

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Mental imagery is an experience like perception in the absence of a percept. It is a ubiquitous feature of human cognition, yet it has been relatively neglected in the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of depression. Imagery abnormalities in depression include an excess of intrusive negative mental imagery; impoverished positive imagery; bias for observer perspective imagery; and overgeneral memory, in which specific imagery is lacking. We consider the contribution of imagery dysfunctions to depressive psychopathology and implications for cognitive behavioral interventions. Treatment advances capitalizing on the representational format of imagery (as opposed to its content) are reviewed, including imagery rescripting, positive imagery generation, and memory specificity training. Consideration of mental imagery can contribute to clinical assessment and imagery-focused psychological therapeutic techniques and promote investigation of underlying mechanisms for treatment innovation. Research into mental imagery in depression is at an early stage. Work that bridges clinical psychology and neuroscience in the investigation of imagery-related mechanisms is recommended.

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“…There are now guidelines for instrument development and validation 11 with examples and recommendations. 47,52,77,92 Quality criteria such as design, methods, and outcomes for measurement properties have been developed 154 and an early 4 stage developmental validation procedure on a Dutch version of the MPQ merits reconsideration. 165 Finally, a comprehensive review of 6 key instrumentation issues that have emerged in implementation science has been undertaken.…”

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“…52 These tools are described in Table S6 (available online as Supplemental Digital Content at http:// links.lww.com/PAIN/A201). However, specific and direct comparisons with the MPQ in terms of validity and utility have yet to be undertaken.…”

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Pain assessment in context: a state of the science review of the McGill pain questionnaire 40 years on

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The McGill pain questionnaire (MPQ) and its later derivative the short form-MPQ have been used widely both in experimental and clinical pain studies. They have been of considerable importance in stimulating research into the perception of pain and now, with the publication of its latest variant, the short form-MPQ-2, it is appropriate to appraise their utility in the light of subsequent research into the nature of pain and the purpose of pain assessment. Following a description of the content and development of the questionnaires, issues of validity, reliability, and utility are addressed, not only in terms of the individual pain descriptors and the scales, but also in terms of methods of quantification. In addition, other methods of pain depiction are considered. In the second part of the review, advances in pain measurement and methodology, in the elucidation of pain mechanisms and pathways, in the psychology of pain, and in the nature of pain behavior are presented and their implications for pain assessment in general and the MPQ family of measures in particular will be addressed. It is suggested that pain assessment needs to be cast in its social context. We need to understand the influences on pain expression using a socio-communication model of pain that recognizes the function of pain and the importance of both innate pain responses and the effects of social learning. The review concludes with recommendations for future use of the MPQ and identifies a number of research challenges which lie ahead.

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Mental imagery in chronic pain: Prevalence and characteristics

Cited by 29 publications

References 33 publications

Level of readiness of chronic pain patients to practise active self‐care

Level of readiness of chronic pain patients to practise active self‐care

Mental Imagery in Depression: Phenomenology, Potential Mechanisms, and Treatment Implications

Pain assessment in context: a state of the science review of the McGill pain questionnaire 40 years on

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