Anxiety sensitivity and fear of pain in patients with recurring headaches

GJG Asmundson, PJ Norton, F Veloso - Behaviour research and therapy, 1999 - Elsevier
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) plays an important role in the cognitive, affective and behavioral
profiles of patients with chronic pain related to musculoskeletal injury. However …

Anxiety sensitivity, fear, and avoidance behavior in headache pain

PJ Norton, GJG Asmundson - Pain, 2004 - Elsevier
Recent research has implicated anxiety sensitivity (AS), the fear of anxiety-related
sensations, as a mitigating factor involved in fear and avoidance in patients with chronic …

Anxiety sensitivity and headache: diagnostic differences, impact, and relations with perceived headache triggers

TA Smitherman, RE Davis, AB Walters, J Young… - …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Anxiety sensitivity (AS), the fear of arousal-related bodily sensations due to
beliefs about presumed harmful consequences, predicts fear and avoidance among …

The contribution of pain-related anxiety to disability from headache

JM Nash, DM Williams, R Nicholson… - Journal of behavioral …, 2006 - Springer
Disability associated with headache cannot be fully accounted for by pain intensity and
headache frequency. As such, a variety of cognitive and affective factors have been …

Role of anxiety sensitivity in pain-related fear and avoidance

GJG Asmundson, S Taylor - Journal of behavioral medicine, 1996 - Springer
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of anxiety-related bodily sensations, arising from beliefs
that the sensations have harmful consequences. There has been a good deal of research on …

Anxiety sensitivity: Its relationship to functional status in patients with chronic pain

K Plehn, RA Peterson, DA Williams - Journal of Occupational …, 1998 - Springer
Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is the fear of anxiety-related bodily sensations based on the belief
that they are harmful. The purpose of this study was to examine how AS contributes to …

Anxiety sensitivity in patients with physically unexplained chronic back pain: A preliminary report

GJG Asmundson, GR Norton - Behaviour research and therapy, 1995 - Elsevier
It has been proposed that high anxiety sensitivity amplifies a number of fears and anxiety
reactions. The purpose of this study was to examine whether anxiety sensitivity influences …

Fear of pain in recurrent headache sufferers

KG Hursey, SD Jacks - Headache: The Journal of Head and …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the role of fear of pain in headache sufferers using the Fear of Pain
Questionnaire (FPQ). Seventy‐six headache sufferers and 58 controls completed the FPQ …

The assessment of anxiety and fear in persons with chronic pain: a comparison of instruments

LM Mccracken, RT Gross, J Aikens… - Behaviour research and …, 1996 - Elsevier
Instruments used to study anxiety and fear responses related to chronic pain vary along two
dimensions. They differ in terms of the stimuli or situations that evoke anxiety responses and …

Does anxiety affect coping with chronic pain?

LM McCracken, RT Gross - The Clinical journal of pain, 1993 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate whether symptoms of emotional distress related to pain affect
patients' use of pain coping strategies. Relations between anxiety responses, as assessed …