Brief Psychological Screening Questions can be Useful for Ruling Out Psychological Conditions in Patients with Chronic Pain
- Vaegter, H.
- Handberg, G.
- Kent, Peter
DOIAbstract
Objectives: Psychological symptoms are highly prevalent in chronic pain patients. Timely and accurate identification may enable individualized treatment and improve outcomes. The aims of this study were to (1) investigate the concurrent validity of brief psychological screening questions assessing anxiety, fear of movement, stress, pain catastrophization, and depression in chronic pain patients, and (2) to determine screening question cut-points at which the likely probability of having these psychological states was <10%. Materials and Methods: Responses to 1-item or 2-item screening questions within each of these 5 psychological constructs were compared with those of validated full-length questionnaires in 894 patients with diverse chroni...
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