• DOI:10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00146-2
Corpus ID: 21377426

Learning to live with the pain: acceptance of pain predicts adjustment in persons with chronic pain

@article{McCracken1998LearningTL,
  title={Learning to live with the pain: acceptance of pain predicts adjustment in persons with chronic pain},
  author={L. McCracken},
  journal={Pain},
  year={1998},
  volume={74},
  pages={21-27}
}

L. McCracken

Published 1998

Psychology, Medicine

Pain

When patients find their pain unacceptable they are likely to attempt to avoid it at all costs and seek readily available interventions to reduce or eliminate it. [...] Key Method One hundred and sixty adults with chronic pain provided responses to a questionnaire assessing acceptance of pain, and a number of other questionnaires assessing their adjustment to pain. Correlational analyses showed that greater acceptance of pain was associated with reports of lower pain intensity, less pain-related anxiety and…Expand Abstract

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