| Reference : Attentional bias to pain-related information: A meta-analysis of dot-probe studies |
| Scientific journals : Article | |||
| Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Theoretical & cognitive psychology | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/36443 | |||
| Attentional bias to pain-related information: A meta-analysis of dot-probe studies | |
| English | |
| Todd, Jemma* [> >] | |
Van Ryckeghem, Dimitri*  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE) > ; Ghent University > Experimental-Clinical Health Psychology] | |
| Sharpe, Louise [> >] | |
| Crombez, Geert [> >] | |
| * These authors have contributed equally to this work. | |
| 2018 | |
| Health Psychology Review | |
| Routledge | |
| Yes (verified by ORBilu) | |
| International | |
| 1743-7199 | |
| 1743-7202 | |
| [en] Pain ; Attentional bias ; Meta-analysis ; Dot-probe | |
| [en] Studies investigating attentional biases towards pain information vary widely in both design
and results. The aim of this meta-analysis was to determine the degree to which attentional biases towards pain occur when measured with the dot-probe task. A total of 2168 references were screened, resulting in a final sample of 4466 participants from 52 articles. Participants were grouped according to pain experience: chronic pain, acute pain, anticipating experimental/procedural pain, social concern for pain, or healthy people. In general, results revealed a significant, but small bias towards pain words (d= 0.136), and pain pictures (d= 0.110) in chronic pain patients, but not in those with acute pain, those anticipating pain, or healthy people. Follow-up analyses revealed an attentional bias towards sensory pain words in the chronic pain group (d= 0.198), and the acute pain group (d= 0.303), but not other groups. In contrast, attentional biases towards affective pain stimuli were not significant for any pain groups. This meta-analysis found support for attentional biases towards sensory pain stimuli in patients with chronic pain in comparison to healthy individuals across a range of common parameters. Future researchers need to consider task design when seeking to optimally measure pain-relevant attentional biases | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/36443 | |
| 10.1080/17437199.2018.1521729 |
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