Does attention bias modification training impact on task performance in the context of pain: An experimental study in healthy participants.

ABSTRACT: Attention has been theorized to play a key role in the experience of pain and associated task interference. Training attention away from pain via attention bias modification (ABM) training techniques has been proposed to improve pain-related outcomes, but evidence is inconsistent. In an experimental study, we investigated the impact of a single session ABM training -using a visual probe paradigm with idiosyncratic pain words- on cold pressor test (CPT) pain experience and task interference by pain. Fifty-eight healthy volunteers were randomly assigned to an ABM training group (N = 28; attending away from pain) and a sham training group (N = 30; no training direction). At pre-training, participants performed a baseline Random-Interval-Repetition (RIR) task and the CPT. Participants reported

SUBMITTER: Van Ryckeghem DML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6051628 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature