Objectives: We aimed to investigate whether the use of a brief screening for PTEs could help
inform chronic pain treatment. Methods: The performance and acceptability of the Stressful …

Objectives Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) commonly co‐occurs with chronic pain.
Although PTSD symptoms are associated with negative health outcomes in patients with …

Aims To investigate pain intensity, posttraumatic stress, depression, anxiety, disability, and
life satisfaction in patients with injury-related chronic pain and to analyze differences in …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of a Swedish
version of the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS); to investigate the prevalence of …

BackgroundStress questionnaires are included in many epidemiological cohort studies but
the psychometric characteristics of these questionnaires are largely unknown. The aim of …

Objectives: Psychological symptoms are highly prevalent in chronic pain patients. Timely
and accurate identification may enable individualized treatment and improve outcomes. The …

Objective: Given the prevalence and complexity of chronic pain, there is a need for
measures of disability that (a) provide comprehensive, useful clinical information with regard …

John Briere is a clinical psychologist at the University of Southern California School of
Medicine and the Division of Emergency Psychiatry of the Los Angeles County-University of …

The authors examined the reliability and concurrent validity of a modified version of the
Stressful Life Events Screening Questionnaire (SLESQ) in a sample of 1,517 psychiatric …

Pain behaviors that are maintained beyond the acute stage after injury can contribute to
subsequent psychosocial and physical disability. Critical to the study of pain behaviors is the …