Somatic burden and perceived cognitive problems in trauma‐exposed adults with posttraumatic stress symptoms or pain

Bartel, Alisa; Jordan, Joshua T.; Correll, Danielle; Devane, Amanda; Samuelson, Kristin W.

doi:10.1002/jclp.22855

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“…Anxiety, depression and PTSD is associated with somatic symptoms (Haug, Mykletun & Dahl, 2004;Bartel et al, 2020). It is thought that the somatic sensory processing mechanism extends to cognitive symptoms and reveals a potential generalization of the impairment in the cognitive and somatic domains in PTSD [31].In line with this, it is seen that 'negative alterations in cognitions and mood' are high in severe somatic distress in PTSD symptomology like other symptomatologies in this study.…”

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Somatic distress, mental health and psychological resilience among cancer patients during the Covid-19 pandemic

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We aimed to investigate the somatic distress and psychological symptoms levels of cancer patients, and analyze the influencing factors on somatic distress during COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional study included 216 eligible cancer patients. The Patient Health Questionnaire-15, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Checklist for DSM-5, The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21, the Brief Resilience Scale, the Stressful Life Events List due to Pandemic were administered to the participants. The moderate to severe somatic distress rate was % 38 and probable PTSD rate was 20.4%. Depression, anxiety and stress symptoms were 36.1%, 49.1% and 45.4%, respectively, from mild to extremely severe. There were substantial association between somatic symptoms severity and high PTSD, anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms levels. Low education, high anxiety levels, high experience stressful life events, and low psychological resilience predicted high somatic distress. This study demonstrates the high risk of somatic distress, PTSD, depression, anxiety and stress in patients with cancer during the pandemic. In addition, somatic distress may indicate high levels of psychological symptoms, high experience stressful life events, and low psychological resilience. It underscores the need to assess psychological status during the pandemic, especially those with high level somatic symptoms.

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“…Higher somatic burden (i.e., the cumulative experience of and distress related to somatic symptoms such as pain) is significantly associated with depression and anxiety (Gierk et al, 2014). In a recent study, somatic burden was found to partially mediate the relationship between PTSD and perception of cognitive problems; whereas, no direct effect was found between pain severity and perception of cognitive problems (Bartel et al, 2019). It seems plausible that there is a more complexinteraction occurring between pain severity, the somatic burden of pain, accompanying psychological distress (i.e., anxiety and depression), and OGM which is worthy of investigation.…”

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Autobiographical Memory and Future Thinking Specificity and Content in Chronic Pain

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Chronic pain is associated with high levels of mental health issues and alterations in cognitive processing. Cognitive-behavioral models illustrate the role of memory alterations (e.g., autobiographical memory and future thinking) in the development and maintenance of chronic pain as well as in mental health disorders which frequently co-occur with chronic pain (e.g., anxiety and mood disorders). This study aims to expand our understanding of specific cognitive mechanisms underlying chronic pain which may in turn shed light on cognitive processes underlying pain-related psychological distress. Individuals (N = 84) who reported a history of chronic pain and individuals who reported no history of chronic pain (N = 102) were recruited from MTurk to complete an online survey including standardized measures of anxiety and depression and two sentence completion tasks that assessed autobiographical memory and future thinking specificity and content. Chi square analyses revealed that participants who endorsed experiencing chronic pain were significantly more likely to recall at least one painful and negative event and to imagine at least one anticipated painful event in their future. Two ANCOVAs were performed to examine the degree to which chronic pain endorsement influenced specificity in memory and future imagining. Individuals with a history of chronic pain and higher levels of depression symptom severity generated autobiographical memories with significantly less specificity; whereas, individuals with a history of chronic pain also generated future autobiographical events with significantly less specificity. In addition, individuals with a history of chronic pain were more likely to generate episodes related to pain when asked to recall the past or imagine the future. Further research is needed to improve our understanding of the etiology of autobiographical memory and future thinking specificity and content in the pathogenesis of mental health conditions in the context of chronic pain.

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“…Further, subjects with PTSD showed more severe chronic pain and this latter correlated with post-traumatic stress symptoms. 54,55 Pain and PTSD are associated with similar neurobiological abnormalities, 56,57 as hyperarousal, 58 dysregulations in stress responses, 59 and in pain modulation. 60 PTSD subjects show an intense and widespread chronic pain and a peculiar sensory profile of hyposensitivity to pain, related to increased dissociation, accompanied by hyperreactivity to suprathreshold noxious stimuli, linked to increased anxiety sensitivity.…”

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Do somatic symptoms relate to PTSD and gender after earthquake exposure? A cross-sectional study on young adult survivors in Italy

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Objective. Increasing evidence confirms a strict relationship between mental disorders and physical health. Particularly, stressful life events and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been closely correlated with various physical disorders and somatic symptoms, such as chronic pain, gastrointestinal disorders, and headaches. The aim of this study was to investigate the emergence of somatic symptoms in a sample of young adult survivors 21 months after exposure to the L’Aquila 2009 earthquake, with particular attention to PTSD and gender impact. Methods. Four hundred and fifty high-school senior students (253 male and 197 female) exposed to the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, 21 months earlier, were enrolled and evaluated by the Trauma and Loss Spectrum Self-Report (TALS-SR), for symptomatological PTSD, and the Mood Spectrum Self-Report-Lifetime Version (MOODS-SR) “rhythmicity and vegetative functions” domain, for somatic symptoms. Results. Significantly higher rates of endorsement of the MOODS-SR somatic symptoms emerged in survivors with PTSD compared to those without. Females reported higher rates of endorsement of at least one MOODS-SR somatic symptom compared to males; however, a Decision Tree model and a two-way analysis of variance model confirmed a significant effect of PTSD only. A multivariate logistical regression showed a significant association between the presence of at least one MOOD-SR somatic symptom and re-experiencing and maladaptive coping TALS-SR domains. Conclusion. This study corroborates a relevant impact of symptomatological PTSD, across both the genders, on somatic symptoms occurring in young adults after months from exposure to a massive earthquake.

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Somatic burden and perceived cognitive problems in trauma‐exposed adults with posttraumatic stress symptoms or pain

Cited by 10 publications

References 94 publications

Somatic distress, mental health and psychological resilience among cancer patients during the Covid-19 pandemic

Somatic distress, mental health and psychological resilience among cancer patients during the Covid-19 pandemic

Autobiographical Memory and Future Thinking Specificity and Content in Chronic Pain

Do somatic symptoms relate to PTSD and gender after earthquake exposure? A cross-sectional study on young adult survivors in Italy

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