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Papers: 16 May 2020 - 22 May 2020

RESEARCH TYPE:
Psychology


2020 May 16


Eur J Pain

A systematic review of cross-cultural validation of the pain catastrophizing scale.

Authors

Ikemoto T, Hayashi K, Shiro Y, Arai Y-C, Marcuzzi A, Costa D, Wrigley P
Eur J Pain. 2020 May 16.
PMID: 32416018.

Abstract

Although it has been suggested that the different cultural and social environments between countries contribute to variations in pain catastrophizing (PC), an international comparison of PC in patients with chronic pain has not yet been reported. Prior to undertaking this comparison, a cross-cultural assessment of the pain catastrophizing scale (PCS) was undertaken to explore the different factor-structures among each translated version of the PCS.