Publications by authors named "Ahmad N Abudoush"
There is some evidence for attentional biases in individuals with chronic pain (CP). Cultural and linguistic differences might affect the manifestation of these processes across populations. However, such attentional biases have not been explored in the Arabic-speaking population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The lived experiences of chronic pain (CP) among Arabic-speaking populations remain underexplored. A better understanding of these experiences and their associations with attention difficulties, coping mechanisms, and treatment options could lead to improved support for this group.
Methods: This qualitative study utilised a descriptive design and involved one-to-one interviews with 51 participants with CP who had just completed two attention tasks.
Article Synopsis
- Researchers studied how people with chronic pain pay attention to pain-related information differently than those without pain.
- They analyzed 2008 studies and found 34 that focused on this issue, including one with 15 studies for deeper statistics.
- The findings showed that people with chronic pain tend to pay more attention to information about pain, both in how it feels and how it affects emotions, but the reasons behind this weren't perfectly clear.