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| The Acute versus Chronic Pain Questionnaire (ACPQ) and actual pain experience in older people | | Author(s) | E J A Scherder, R Smit, P J Vuijk, A Bouma |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 6, no 3, August 2002 |
| Pages | pp 304-312 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Pain ; Evaluation ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | In a sample of 68 older people, two groups emerged from an analysis using the Acute versus Chronic Pain Questionnaire (ACPQ). One group of 35 subjects comprised those who expected to suffer more from one or more acute pain items (high-ACPQ group). A second group of 33 emerged for whom none of the acute items was considered to be a burden (low-ACPQ group). It was hypothesised that, compared with the low-ACPQ group, those with high-ACPQ scores selected acute ACPQ items due to a decline in the experience of chronic affective pain. The hypothesis predicted lower scores on the chronic ACPQ-items and lower scores on scales evaluating the subjects' own chronic affective pain. The results showed that, irrespective of the group, the chronic ACPQ items were considered to produce the most burdens. However, compared with the low-ACPQ group, the high ACPQ group reported experiencing significantly more pain from the ACPQ items. Moreover, the latter group indicated suffering less pain from their own chronic pain conditions. These findings suggest that the selection of one or more acute items of the ACPQ (high-ACPQ group) may point to an alteration in subjects' acute pain experience. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020919217 A |
| Classmark | CT7: 4C: 76H |
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