Beliefs related to pain measured by the survey:
(1) control: belief in one's personal control over pain
(2) solicitude: belief in the appropriateness of solicitous responses from one's family when in pain
(3) medication: belief that medications are appropriate for chronic pain problems
(4) disability: belief in oneself as unable to function because of pain
(5) emotion: belief in a relationship between emotions and pain
(6) medical cure: belief that a medical cure exists for one's pain problems
(7) harm: belief that pain signifies damage and that exercise and activity should therefore be restricted. There may be a hesitancy to exercise because of a fear for possible injury.
The instrument consists of 57 statements.
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Response
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Positive Directed
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Negative Directed
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This is very untrue for me.
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0
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4
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This is somewhat untrue for me.
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1
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3
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This is neither true nor untrue for me (or it does not apply to me).
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2
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2
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This is somewhat true for me.
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3
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1
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This is very true for me.
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4
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0
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Control (10):
• positive directed: 1, 25, 33, 39, 41, 53
• negative directed: 11, 16, 28, 47
Disability (10):
• positive directed: 10, 35, 57
• negative directed: 3, 19, 26, 42, 45, 49, 52
Harm (8):
• positive directed: 2, 32, 38,
• negative directed: 5, 13, 24, 46, 55
Emotion (8):
• positive directed: 15, 23, 31, 37, 44
• negative directed: 4, 20, 48
Medication (6):
• positive directed: 8, 14, 27
• negative directed: 36, 51, 54
Solicitude (6):
• positive directed: 6, 9, 17, 22, 30, 34
• negative directed:
Medical Cure (9):
• positive directed: 7, 18, 29, 40, 50
• negative directed: 12, 21, 43, 56
Interpretation:
• minimum score: 0
• maximum control score: 40
• maximum disability score: 40
• maximum harm score: 32
• maximum emotion score: 32
• maximum medication score: 24
• maximum solicitude score: 24
• maximum medical cure score: 36
• Patients with high scores for disability and harm tended to be physically disabled.
