Temporal preference in individuals reporting chronic pain: discounting of delayed pain-related and monetary outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Opioid therapy for pain is associated with an increased risk for substance use disorders. This study's purpose was to determine the association between opioid misuse propensity (Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients in Pain-Revised) and delay discounting (DD), a behavioral process linked to substance use disorders, which quantifies the extent to which outcomes are devalued because of their delay. Participants reporting chronic pain (N = 249) answered pain and opioid use questions and then completed 4 DD tasks. Each of these tasks assessed either money or pain consequences, framed as either rewards or punishments. Each task involved hypothetical choices between immediate smaller vs delayed larger consequences. The extant Monetary Choice Questionnaire assessed DD of money rewards, and

SUBMITTER: Tompkins DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4949122 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature