Chronic pain patient-spouse behavioral interactions predict patient disability

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Abstract
Been used to study this association. In this study, 50 chronic pain patients and their spouses were videotaped while engaging in common household activities, and patient pain behaviors and spouse solicitous behaviors were coded from the tapes. Spouse solicitous responses to non-verbal pain behaviors were significant predictors of physical disability in the more depressed patients, and were significant predictors of rate of non-verbal pain behavior in patients who reported greater pain. Spouse sulicitous responses did not predict psychosocial dysfunction or total self-reported pain behaviors. The results support behavioral theory and indicate the need for further study of the association between spouse solicitousness and patient pain behaviors/disability. *Corresponding author: Joan M. Romano, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (RP-10), University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Tel.: (206) 543-3990; FAX: (206) 543-9520. 1Present address: Division of Family Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1W5, Canada. (Received 6 December 1994; revised version received 10 February 1995; accepted 20 February 1995.) © Lippincott-Raven Publishers....