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## Abstract Independent investigators have found that pain is related to health anxiety, trait anxiety, pain‐related anxiety, and anxiety sensitivity. To date, the relationship among these anxiety‐related constructs has not been studied directly and little is known about their relative ability to predict adjustment to pain over time. This paper presents longitudinal data from measures given to 227 musculoskeletal pain patients. Patients were asked at the time of their first visit (T1) to a physiotherapy clinic to complete a questionnaire package including measures of these different forms of anxiety as well as pain severity, disability, negative affect, and perceived control. Approximately 3 months later (T2), 50% of patients responded to these same questionnaires. Results showed that correlations among the anxiety measures at T1 ranged from 0.35 to 0.56. Using multiple regression analyses, measures of T1 anxiety were each examined for their ability to predict unique variance in disability, negative affect, and perceptions of control measured at T1 and T2. At T1, after controlling for pain severity and other measures of anxiety, pain‐related anxiety uniquely predicted both disabili

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Author

Heather D Hadjistavropoulos; Gordon J.G Asmundson; Kristine M Kowalyk

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley; FASEB (ISSN 1090-3801)

Published

2004

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)