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## Abstract ## Background Studies examining the effect of biased cognitions on later pain outcomes have primarily focused on attentional biases, leaving the role of interpretation biases largely unexplored. Also, few studies have examined pain‐related cognitive biases in elderly persons. The current study aims to fill these research gaps. ## Methods Younger and older adults with and without chronic pain (N = 126) completed an interpretation bias task and a free‐viewing task of injury and neutral scenes at baseline. Participants’ pain intensity and disability were assessed at baseline and at a 6‐month follow‐up. A machine‐learning data‐driven approach to analysing eye movement data was adopted. ## Results Eye movement analyses revealed two common attentional pattern subgroups for scene‐viewing: an “explorative” group and a “focused” group. At baseline, participants with chronic pain endorsed more injury‐/illness‐related interpretations compared to pain‐free controls, but they did not differ in eye movements on scene images. Older adults interpreted illness‐related scenarios more negatively compared to younger adults, but there was also no difference in eye movements between age grou

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Author

Frederick H. F. Chan; Hin Suen; Antoni B. Chan; Janet H. Hsiao; Tom J. Barry

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)