PSYCHOLOGICAL-TESTING VARIABLES AS PREDICTORS OF RETURN TO WORK BY CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS

Authors
ROBBINS RA MOODY DS HAHN MB WEAVER MA
Citation
Ra. Robbins et al., PSYCHOLOGICAL-TESTING VARIABLES AS PREDICTORS OF RETURN TO WORK BY CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS, Perceptual and motor skills, 83(3), 1996, pp. 1317-1318
Citations number
1
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental
Journal title
Perceptual and motor skills → ACNP
ISSN journal
00315125
Volume
83
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Part
2
Pages
1317 - 1318
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-5125(1996)83:3<1317:PVAPOR>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
After multidisciplinary pain treatment, pretreatment psychological tes ting variables were compared for 20 chronic pain patients who were wor king and 42 who were not working. Symptom Checklist-90-R scores for De pression, Anxiety, Phobic Anxiety, Psychoticism, Global Severity, and Positive Symptom Distress were lower for working subjects as were thos e on the Beck Depression Inventory. In contrast, workers scored higher on self-efficacy to manage pain, self-efficacy to function, self-effi cacy to manage other symptoms, and over-all self-efficacy.