Relationship between back pain and personality: Psychologic vulnerability as risk factor for the development of chronic back pain

Sivik, Tatjana; Rojvall, Solveig; Gustafsson, Eva; Klingberg-Olsson, Kerstin; Wagner, Annemarie; Delimar, N

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“…2 Since then, other clinicians have also used pain drawings to evaluate patients' psychologic states, to predict outcome and to avoid unnecessary invasive procedures on patients whose problems are not entirely physiologic. Sivik, 7 Chan et al, 8 and Ransford et al 1 have all advocated the use and advantages of using pain drawings as a psychologic screening tool. Sivik, 7 Chan et al, 8 and Ransford et al 1 have all advocated the use and advantages of using pain drawings as a psychologic screening tool.…”

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A Systematic Review of Pain Drawing Literature

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2006

The Clinical Journal of Pain

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A Systematic Review of Pain Drawing Literature

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2006

The Clinical Journal of Pain

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“…In general, this might decrease the statistical power of the analysis and reduce the number of IVs, though in this case it could be compensated by a very large sample size 27 . In addition, it is possible that we did not detect the expected causal effects of psychological factors because the back pain phenotype we used was not restricted to chronic back pain exclusively, while many previously described associations were observed specifically in the setting of chronic back pain 16,20,43 . Although we can hypothesize that patients with back pain seeking healthcare treatment most likely have chronic pain 15,21,35 , there may still be a substantial proportion of people with acute back pain in our GWAS sample and this might have affected our findings.…”

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“…Among them depression is by far the most common mental disorder associated with back pain 38,52 . Anxiety and the "Big Five" personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness) are associated with chronic back pain as well 20,43 .…”

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Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study of Personality Traits Reveals a Positive Feedback Loop Between Neuroticism and Back Pain

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Williams

Zaytseva

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“…Personality traits are also related with pain. For instance, pain patients' personality profiles significantly deviate from population-based normative scores or from pain-free control groups (80)(81)(82). In this study, we will focus on two of the Big Five traits, namely neuroticism and extraversion.…”

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Trajectories of Pain in Very Old Age: The Role of Eudaimonic Wellbeing and Personality

2022

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Pain is common in very old age and in the last years prior to death. However, little is known regarding longitudinal trajectories of pain in very old age and at the end of life. Moreover, whereas medical and morbidity-related factors contributing to pain are established, the role of psychosocial factors, such as eudaimonic wellbeing or personality as potential determinants of late-life pain trajectories has so far not been sufficiently investigated. We used data from the LateLine project. The sample consisted of n = 118 very old adults (M = 90.5 years, SD = 2.8 years) who were living alone at baseline and who had died between 2009 and 2021. They took part in up to 16 measurement occasions (M = 5.2, SD = 4.7, range 1–16) within an observational interval of 7 years. Assessment of pain was based on the SF-36 bodily pain subscale. Key indicators of eudaimonic wellbeing (autonomy, environmental mastery, and purpose in life) as well two of the Big Five personality traits (neuroticism and extraversion) were included as predictors. We controlled in all analyses for gender, education, subjective health, and depressive symptoms. Contrasting pain trajectories over chronological age (time since birth) vs. time to death, a time-to-death-related model resulted in a better model fit and accounted for a larger amount of pain variability than the age-related model. Mean-level change in pain, both over age and time to death, was not significant, but there was substantial interindividual variability in intraindividual trajectories. Age-related change in pain was significantly predicted by autonomy and neuroticism, with increasing pain among those who had lower initial autonomy scores and higher initial neuroticism scores. With regard to time-to-death-related trajectories of pain, higher purpose in life as well as lower extraversion at baseline predicted less increase or even steeper decrease in pain with approaching death. Our findings suggest that, despite overall mean-level stability in pain both over age and time to death, there is a substantial proportion of individuals who reveal deterioration in pain over time. Regarding the role of psychosocial predictors, personality traits and eudaimonic wellbeing are related with late-life pain trajectories both over age and time-to-death.

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Relationship between back pain and personality: Psychologic vulnerability as risk factor for the development of chronic back pain

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

A Systematic Review of Pain Drawing Literature

A Systematic Review of Pain Drawing Literature

Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study of Personality Traits Reveals a Positive Feedback Loop Between Neuroticism and Back Pain

Trajectories of Pain in Very Old Age: The Role of Eudaimonic Wellbeing and Personality

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