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Psychological and Social Support for Pain Management

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 1829

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Dr. Luis Suso-Martí

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Exercise Intervention for Health Research Group (EXINH-RG), Department of Physiotherapy, University of Valencia, Valencia 46022, Spain
Interests: exercise intervention; action observation; emotion recognition
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Dear Colleagues,

Pain, and especially chronic pain, represents a major epidemic. Many clinical and scientific efforts are being undertaken to develop better therapeutic approaches, but we are still far from fully understanding pain and developing an effective treatment. In this sense, we know that psychological variables and social determinants have a fundamental role in the development and chronification of pain, and are a potential pathway in its treatment. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to compile relevant contributions on the biopsychosocial approach to pain, paying special attention to the psychological and social variables involved in pain.

Dr. Luis Suso-Martí
Guest Editor

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  • pain
  • psychological variables
  • social determinants
  • biopsychosocial

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Effects of Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectations on Motor Imagery-Induced Thermal and Mechanical Hypoalgesia: A Single-Blind Randomised Controlled Trial
by Ferran Cuenca-Martínez, Elena Bocos-Corredor, África Espinosa-Giménez, Laura Barrero-Santiago, Naira Nefa-Díaz, David Canchal-Crespo, Clovis Varangot-Reille, Aida Herranz-Gómez, Luis Suso-Martí, Núria Sempere-Rubio and Roy La Touche
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 11878; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191911878 - 20 Sep 2022
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The main aim of this study was to assess whether self-efficacy (SE) and outcome expectations (OEs) modulate the hypoalgesic effect induced by motor imagery (MI). A total of 75 asymptomatic participants were randomly assigned to the positive (SE+, OE+), negative (SE−, OE−) or [...] Read more.
The main aim of this study was to assess whether self-efficacy (SE) and outcome expectations (OEs) modulate the hypoalgesic effect induced by motor imagery (MI). A total of 75 asymptomatic participants were randomly assigned to the positive (SE+, OE+), negative (SE−, OE−) or non-expectation (CG) groups. Heat pain threshold (HPT) and pain pressure threshold (PPT) were the main variables. Cold detection threshold (CDT), warm detection threshold (WDT), heart rate (HR) and perceived fatigue were the secondary variables. The variables were assessed preintervention, immediately postintervention and 10 min postintervention, except for HR, which was measured continuously during the intervention. Regarding HPT, significant within-group pre-post differences were found in the OE+ group, with a low effect size (p = 0.01, d = −0.39). With regard to ΔPPT, significant intergroup differences were found in Δpost-pre between the SE+ and CG groups (p = 0.012, d = 1.04) and also between SE+ and OE− (p = 0.006, d = 1.08), both with a large effect size. CG, SE−, and OE− groups had poorer CDT and WDT. Regarding HR, significant intergroup differences were found in the postintervention measurement between OE+ and SE−, with a large effect size (p = 0.016, d = 1.34). Lastly, no between-group differences were found regarding perceived fatigue (p > 0.05). The results obtained showed that positive expectations have a slight influence on the increase in heat and mechanical pain detection thresholds. Positive and non-expectancy groups showed an autonomic activation. The results also showed that negative expectations led to poorer perceptual processes. Full article
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