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Coping with chronic musculoskeletal pain in Portugal and in the United States: A cross-cultural study
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Objective. The aim of this study was to examine
the associations between coping and adjustment to
chronic pain in a sample of patients from Portugal
and to discuss the findings with respect to published
findings from two studies using patients from
the United States.
Design. Two brief measures of pain coping were
translated and administered with measures of physical
and psychological functioning to a sample of
Portuguese patients. Analyses examined the associations
among the study variables and compared
the results with published data from two patient
samples from the United States.
Participants. One hundred seventeen individuals
with chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Outcome Measures. Portuguese translations of
brief versions of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire
and Chronic Pain Coping Inventory and criterion
measures of pain intensity, pain interference,
and depression.
Results. Statistically significant positive associations
were found between measures of patient
dysfunction and catastrophizing, praying/hoping,
guarding, asking for assistance, and support
seeking; and negative associations were found
between the criterion measures and ignoring sensations,
coping self-statements, and increasing
behavioral activities. Mean differences between the
Portuguese and US samples in the coping scales
were found for nine of the 15 coping scales.
Conclusions. The results support the reliability and
validity of the translated Coping Strategies Questionnaire
and Chronic Pain Coping Inventory and
also indicate a number of similarities, but also some
interesting differences, in the findings from the Portuguese
vs US samples, suggesting that there may
be cultural differences in how people cope with pain.
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Chronic pain Cross-cultural research Coping Catastrophizing
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Pain Medicine, 12, 1470-1480