The efficacy of psychological treatments emphasising a self-management approach to
chronic pain has been demonstrated by substantial empirical research. Nevertheless, high …

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), based on the Psychological Flexibility (PF)
model, has been recently applied to fibromyalgia (FM), and appeared effective in improving …

Objectives. Chronic pain is prevalent, costly, and is associated with profound psychological
effects. Although pain is prevalent in returning veterans of the recent military conflicts in …

A patient's readiness to adopt a self-management approach to pain has been hypothesized
to increase during multidisciplinary pain treatment and to impact pain coping responses. The …

Background No standard definition exists for the concept “persistent pain self-management”
or how it should be defined in relation to older adults. Poorly defined concepts can result in …

Patient readiness to adopt new beliefs and coping responses to pain may predict response
to multidisciplinary or cognitive-behavioral pain treatments that emphasize changes in …

To clarify the relationships between physical, and psychosocial components of chronic pain,
a path analytic model was tested conceptualizing self efficacy as a mediator of disability. In …

Chronic pain is a debilitating condition that can have an impact on various facets of
interpersonal functioning. Although some studies have examined the extent to which family …

The present study describes the development of the Chronic Pain Self-Efficacy Scale
(CPSS), a 22-item questionnaire designed to measure chronic pain patients' perceived self …

Objective The goal of multidisciplinary treatment for chronic pain is to help patients actively
self-manage pain. In this study, we examined predictors of 2 measures of readiness to self …