The associations of psychological symptoms and cognitive patterns with pain and pain sensitization in people with hand osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether psychological symptoms and cognitive patterns are associated with self-reported pain and pain sensitization in people with hand osteoarthritis (OA).

Design

In the Nor-Hand study (n ​= ​300), people with hand OA self-reported psychological symptoms (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale), cognitive patterns (Pain catastrophizing Scale and Arthritis Self-Efficacy Scale) as well as their pain severity in hands, overall pain and multi-joint pain. Central pain sensitization was measured clinically by temporal summation and pressure pain threshold tests. We examined whether psychological symptoms and cognitive patterns were cross-sectionally associated with pain using linear regression. Beta coefficients (β) per one standard deviation of the independen

SUBMITTER: Mulrooney E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9718141 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature