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Attentional bias to pain-related information: a meta-analysis.
Crombez, Geert; Van Ryckeghem, Dimitri; Eccleston, Christopher et al.
2013In Pain, 154 (4), p. 497-510
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Keywords :
Anxiety/physiopathology; Attention/physiology; Bias (Epidemiology); Databases, Factual/statistics & numerical data; Fear/physiology; Humans; Pain/physiopathology/psychology; Pain Measurement; Photic Stimulation
Abstract :
[en] This meta-analysis investigated whether attentional bias, that is, the preferential allocation of attention to information that is related to pain, is a ubiquitous phenomenon. We also investigated whether attentional bias effects are related to the methodological quality of the study, to procedural differences in their measurement, or to individual differences in pain severity, pain-related fear, anxiety, and depression. Results indicated that individuals who experience chronic pain (n=1023) display an attentional bias towards pain-related words or pictures, but this bias was of a small effect size (d=0.134), and did not differ from that in control groups (d=0.082; n=1398). No evidence was found for an attentional bias towards pain-related words and pictures for acute pain (d=0.049), procedural pain (d=0.142), and experimental pain (d=0.069). However, research in which attentional bias towards signals of impending experimental pain in healthy volunteers was investigated, revealed an attentional bias of medium effect size (d=0.676). Moderator analyses in the chronic pain group identified important procedural variables that affected the presence and magnitude of an attentional bias towards pain-related words and pictures, that is, type and exposure time of pain-related information. None of the individual difference variables affected the magnitude of the attentional bias. Implications of current findings and future directions are discussed.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Crombez, Geert
Van Ryckeghem, Dimitri ;  Ghent University > Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology
Eccleston, Christopher
Van Damme, Stefaan
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Attentional bias to pain-related information: a meta-analysis.
Publication date :
2013
Journal title :
Pain
ISSN :
1872-6623
Publisher :
Elsevier, Netherlands
Volume :
154
Issue :
4
Pages :
497-510
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
Copyright (c) 2012 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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