For both clinical and economic reasons, the increasing number of persons living with
chronic conditions represents a public health issue of growing importance. Emphasizing …

The psychosocial and functional consequences of chronic pain disorders have been well
documented as having significant effects on the experience of pain, presentation to health …

This study uses job demands–resources and conservation of resources theories to propose
that chronic levels of job burnout may aggravate the positive relationship of weekly job …

The construct of perceived self-efficacy is the belief that one can perform novel or difficult
tasks and attain desired outcomes, as spelled out in the Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura …

General self-efficacy is the belief in one's competence to cope with a broad range of stressful
or challenging demands, whereas specific self-efficacy is constrained to a particular task at …

The burden of pain is unequal across racial and ethnic groups. In addition to racial and
ethnic differences in the experience of pain, there are racial and ethnic disparities in the …

Pain usually is the major complaint of patients with problems of the back, thus making pain
evaluation a fundamental requisite in the outcome assessment in spinal surgery. Pain …

Self-efficacy beliefs in people with chronic pain have been assessed either by reference to
confidence in ability to perform specific tasks or to confidence in performing more …

Abstract Background The Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief COPE)
inventory is the most usual measure to identify the nature of coping strategies implemented …

This article reports the frequency of the use of coping scales in academic journals published
from 1998 to 2010. Two thousand empirical journal articles were selected from the EBSCO …