The Journal of Pain
Volume 11, Issue 9 , Pages 876-884 , September 2010

Changes in Situation-Specific Pain Catastrophizing Precede Changes in Pain Report During Capsaicin Pain: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis Among Healthy, Pain-Free Participants

  • Claudia M. Campbell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Dr Claudia M. Campbell, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Suite 100, Baltimore, MD 21224.
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  • Phillip J. Quartana

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Luis F. Buenaver

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Jennifer A. Haythornthwaite

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • Robert R. Edwards

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Received 7 July 2009 ,Revised 7 December 2009 ,Accepted 11 December 2009.

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 Supported by NIH grant AT001433 and with resources from F32 NS06362.

PII: S1526-5900(09)00909-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2009.12.007

The Journal of Pain
Volume 11, Issue 9 , Pages 876-884 , September 2010

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