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Pain acceptance-based coping in complex regional pain syndrome Type I: daily relations with pain intensity, activity, and mood

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This study aimed to examine the temporal patterning of pain acceptance-based coping, activity, and mood in patients with complex regional pain syndrome Type I (CRPS-I), by using a daily diary method. A total of 30 patients with CRPS-I seeking treatment in a tertiary pain management center located in Seoul, Korea participated in the study. Multilevel random effects analyses indicated that (a) engagement in pain acceptance-based coping was significantly associated with lower same-day pain and negative mood and greater same-day activity and positive mood; (b) pain acceptance-based coping predicted increases in activity on the following day; (c) greater pain intensity was significantly associated with lower same-day pain acceptance-based coping and activity and greater same-day negative mood; and (d) pain intensity did not predict pain acceptance-based coping, activity, or mood on the following day. These findings suggest that patients with CRPS-I may benefit from responding to pain with acceptance. Further study and eventual application of this process in CRPS-I may improve upon the success of current approaches to this problem.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University, 221 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 156-756, Korea

    Sungkun Cho & Jang-Han Lee

  2. Health Psychology Section, Psychology Department, King’s College London, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy’s Campus, London, SE1 9RT, UK

    Lance M. McCracken

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2530 Dole St., Sakamaki C400, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA

    Elaine M. Heiby

  4. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 505 Banpo-Dong, Seocho-Gu, Seoul, Korea

    Dong-Eon Moon

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Cho, S., McCracken, L.M., Heiby, E.M. et al. Pain acceptance-based coping in complex regional pain syndrome Type I: daily relations with pain intensity, activity, and mood. J Behav Med 36, 531–538 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-012-9448-7

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