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Depressed Mood Differentially Mediates the Relationship between Pain Intensity and Pain Disability Depending on Pain Duration: A Moderated Mediation Analysis in Chronic Pain Patients
Joint Authors
Probst, Thomas
Neumeier, Susanne
Altmeppen, Jürgen
Angerer, Michael
Loew, Thomas
Pieh, Christoph
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-05-29
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Research has shown that pain is associated with disability and that depressed mood mediates the relationship between pain and disability.
The question of whether duration of pain moderates these effects was addressed in this cross-sectional study with 356 chronic pain patients.
A simple mediation model replicated the notion that depressed mood explains a significant proportion of the relationship between pain and disability (in the study at hand: 12%).
A moderated mediation model revealed that the indirect effect of pain on disability through depressed mood is moderated by pain duration: while depressed mood did not mediate the effect of pain on disability in chronic pain patients with shorter pain duration, depressed mood significantly mediated the effect pain exerts on disability in chronic pain patients with longer pain duration.
Pain duration did not moderate the direct effect of pain on disability.
Implications of these findings for the treatment of chronic pain might be that targeting depressed mood is especially relevant in chronic pain patients with longer pain duration to reduce the effect of pain on disability.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Probst, Thomas& Neumeier, Susanne& Altmeppen, Jürgen& Angerer, Michael& Loew, Thomas& Pieh, Christoph. 2016. Depressed Mood Differentially Mediates the Relationship between Pain Intensity and Pain Disability Depending on Pain Duration: A Moderated Mediation Analysis in Chronic Pain Patients. Pain Research and Management،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1115414
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Probst, Thomas…[et al.]. Depressed Mood Differentially Mediates the Relationship between Pain Intensity and Pain Disability Depending on Pain Duration: A Moderated Mediation Analysis in Chronic Pain Patients. Pain Research and Management No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1115414
American Medical Association (AMA)
Probst, Thomas& Neumeier, Susanne& Altmeppen, Jürgen& Angerer, Michael& Loew, Thomas& Pieh, Christoph. Depressed Mood Differentially Mediates the Relationship between Pain Intensity and Pain Disability Depending on Pain Duration: A Moderated Mediation Analysis in Chronic Pain Patients. Pain Research and Management. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1115414
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1115414