Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Version of the Pain Resilience Scale among Lebanese Adults with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.

Background: The Pain Resilience Scale (PRS), which measures behavioral perseverance and the ability to regulate emotions and cognition despite ongoing pain, lacks an Arabic version.

Objectives: This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt, and validate an Arabic version of the Pain Resilience Scale (PRS-A) among Lebanese adults.

Methods: Phase 1 involved translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the PRS into Arabic.

Pain resilience and catastrophizing combine to predict functional restoration program outcomes.

Objective: Whereas decades of research have been devoted to psychological factors that confer vulnerability to disability and other negative outcomes in the face of chronic pain, recent studies have begun to emphasize psychological characteristics that contribute to enhanced adaptation and better clinical outcomes. Accordingly, the present study was conducted as a longitudinal assessment of the predictive utility of pain resilience and pain catastrophizing as indicators of clinical outcomes among patients receiving a standardized treatment for chronic pain.

Method: Using an observational design, analyses were conducted on measures of pain resilience, pain catastrophizing, quality of life, and clinical pain administered to 149 patients upon admission and prior to discharge from an 8-week outpatient functional restoration program.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction training yields improvements in well-being and rates of perceived nursing errors among hospital nurses.

Introduction: This pilot study aims to further document mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR)'s effect on well-being while exploring its impact on errors among hospital nurses.

Background: The concept of mindfulness has been found to be highly relevant to holistic nursing practices but remains understudied and underused. Preliminary evidence suggests that MBSR can reduce stress among nurses.

The Development and Psychometric Validation of an Arabic-Language Version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale.

. The Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) is the most widely used measure of pain-specific catastrophizing. .

Self-Compassion: Evaluation of a Psychoeducational Website - CORRIGENDUM.

Please note that the self-compassion Website (www.self-compassion.org) and the Mindfulness Self-Compassion program (MSC) offer some similar self-compassion and guided meditation exercises, but differ in structure and content.

Self-Compassion: Evaluation of a Psychoeducational Website.

Background: Low levels of self-compassion are associated with a number of mental health problems. Recent findings suggest that self-compassion can be significantly increased through traditional therapist led interventions such as Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC).

Aims: The goal of this study was to assess the impact of a psychoeducational website modeled on MSC on measured levels of self-compassion and two related constructs: shame and rumination.

German Language Adaptation of the Headache Management Self-Efficacy Scale (HMSE-G) and Development of a New Short Form (HMSE-G-SF).

Objective: This study aims to develop and validate a German version of French and colleagues' Headache Management Self-efficacy Scale and to construct an abbreviated form for use in behavioral headache research. Furthermore, the contribution of headache-specific self-efficacy to pain-related disability in German chronic headache sufferers was examined.

Background: Headache-specific self-efficacy refers to an individuals' confidence that they can engage in behaviors to either prevent headache episodes or to manage headache-related pain and disability.

Treatment outcome in psychiatric inpatients: the discriminative value of self-esteem.

Unlabelled: Self-esteem has been identified as an important clinical variable within various psychological and psychiatric conditions. Surprisingly, its prognostic and discriminative value in predicting treatment outcome has been understudied.

Objective: The current study aims to assess, in an acute psychiatric setting, the comparative role of self-esteem in predicting treatment outcome in depression, anxiety, and global symptom severity, while controlling for socio-demographic variables, pre-treatment symptom severity, and personality pathology.

Predicting treatment failure in the subacute injury phase using the Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire: an observational prospective study in a workers' compensation system.

Objective: The goal of the present study was to examine if patient scores on a brief biopsychosocial screening questionnaire--the Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (OMPQ)--could predict clinical discharge status ("fit" vs "not fit" for return to work) after a standardized 6-week physical therapy-based work conditioning program.

Methods: The OMPQ was administered to a derivation sample of 200 injured workers with soft tissue injuries before beginning treatment. A clinical cutoff score of 147 was subsequently tested in a second validation sample of 211 injured workers.

Fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic pain: a psychometric assessment of the original English version of the Tampa scale for kinesiophobia (TSK).

The Tampa scale for kinesiophobia (TSK) was developed to measure fear of movement/(re)injury in chronic pain patients. Although studies of the Dutch adaptation of the TSK have identified fear of movement/(re)injury as an important predictor of chronic pain, pain-related avoidance behaviour, and disability, surprisingly little data on the psychometric properties of the original English version of the TSK are available. The present study examined the reliability, construct validity and factor structure of the TSK in a sample of chronic pain patients (n=200) presenting for an interdisciplinary functional restoration program.

Secondary prevention of work disability: community-based psychosocial intervention for musculoskeletal disorders.

Introduction: One objective of the present research was to examine the degree to which psychological risk factors could be reduced through participation in a community-based psychosocial intervention for work-related musculoskeletal disorders. A second objective was to examine whether psychosocial risk reduction had an effect on the probability of return to work.

Methods: Participants were 215 Workers Compensation Board claimants with work-related musculoskeletal disorders who had been absent from work for an average of approximately 7 months (M = 28.

The influence of acute anxiety on assessment of nociceptive flexion reflex thresholds in healthy young adults.

The nociceptive flexion reflex (NFR) is a polysynaptic withdrawal reflex that occurs in response to painful stimulation. In human studies, NFR responsiveness has been used as a direct measure of nociception as well as an indirect measure of supraspinal modulation of nociceptive transmission. Previous studies have suggested that anxiety may influence NFR responding, and therefore it has been recommended that anxiety be reduced by familiarizing participants with assessment methodology prior to formal NFR assessment.