Children in pain: an investigation of selective memory for pain and psychological adjustment.

This study investigated the effects of chronic pain on processing and recall of pain-related and neutral information in a group of children suffering from chronic pain due to juvenile arthritis, and a control group. Children were asked to encode pain-sensory, pain-affective and neutral words in a self and another person reference condition. Percentage recall and processing time for each wordtype were used as dependent measures.

The relationship between gender and family history of pain with current pain experience and awareness of pain in others.

This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between family history of pain and current pain experience in a student population. In a sample of 180 students who completed a pain history questionnaire there was a significant difference between males and females with women reporting significantly more pain models than men even when menstrual pain models were excluded from the analysis. There was also a difference on current pain symptoms, with women reporting more pain symptoms but this difference was no longer significant when menstrual pain was excluded.

The Pain Beliefs Questionnaire: an investigation of beliefs in the causes and consequences of pain.

This paper reports the development and validation of the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire (PBQ). This is a 20-item questionnaire covering beliefs about the cause and treatment of pain. It was administered to 294 subjects, comprising 100 chronic pain patients and 194 controls.