From Polyanna syndrome to Eeyore’s Corner? Hope and pain in patients with chronic low back pain

• Authors: Ewa Wojtyna , Łukasz Palt , Katarzyna Popiołek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Chronic low back pain affects 50-80% of the population, while its consequences may impair the functioning of patients suffering from it, in many spheres of life . Hope is a factor which may influence coping with pain as well as cognitive reflection of pain experience. The aim of the study has been to check: 1) whether dependencies exist between hope-trait and hope-state and the perception of pain; 2) whether experiencing pain at the time of filling questionnaires matters for the assessment of the level of hope; 3) whether there is interaction between hope, the pain experienced at the moment of investigation, and memory of the intensity of previously experienced pain. 150 patients participated in the study, they all reported aggravation of the chronic low back pain syndrome. The study was a cross-sectional study, based on questionnaires. On the third day of treatment the subjects were given the following questionnaires: Trait Hope Scale, State Hope Scale, and Numerical Rating Scale of Pain to fill. Poor correlation was demonstrated to exist between hope-state and hope-pathways on the one hand, and the intensity of minimum pain level experienced during the first three days of treatment. It has been noted that the presence of pain at the time of filling questionnaires results in reducing the hope-state, but only in those persons, who had experienced severe pain previously. On the other hand, in case of patients who had experienced slight pain previously, the pain present when filling in the questionnaires is conducive to enhanced hope-state. The results of the study confirm the complex character of relations between hope and pain.

Keywords

EN

pain; hope-trait; hope-state; empathy gaps

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 96-103

Dates

published

2015-03-01

online

2015-04-18

Contributors

author

Ewa Wojtyna

• Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia, ul. Grażyńskiego 53, 40-126 Katowice

author

Łukasz Palt

• Institute of Psychology, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

author

Katarzyna Popiołek

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Katowice, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2015-0013