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Pilot study of a compassion meditation intervention in chronic pain

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Compassionate Health Care, October 2014
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Title
Pilot study of a compassion meditation intervention in chronic pain
Published in
Journal of Compassionate Health Care, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/s40639-014-0004-x
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Authors

Heather L Chapin, Beth D Darnall, Emma M Seppala, James R Doty, Jennifer M Hah, Sean C Mackey

Abstract

The emergence of anger as an important predictor of chronic pain outcomes suggests that treatments that target anger may be particularly useful within the context of chronic pain. Eastern traditions prescribe compassion cultivation to treat persistent anger. Compassion cultivation has been shown to influence emotional processing and reduce negativity bias in the contexts of emotional and physical discomfort, thus suggesting it may be beneficial as a dual treatment for pain and anger. Our objective was to conduct a pilot study of a 9-week group compassion cultivation intervention in chronic pain to examine its effect on pain severity, anger, pain acceptance and pain-related interference. We also aimed to describe observer ratings provided by patients' significant others and secondary effects of the intervention. Pilot clinical trial with repeated measures design that included a within-subjects wait-list control period. Twelve chronic pain patients completed the intervention (F= 10). Data were collected from patients at enrollment, treatment baseline and post-treatment; participant significant others contributed data at the enrollment and post-treatment time points. In this predominantly female sample, patients had significantly reduced pain severity and anger and increased pain acceptance at post-treatment compared to treatment baseline. Significant other qualitative data corroborated patient reports for reductions in pain severity and anger. Compassion meditation may be a useful adjunctive treatment for reducing pain severity and anger, and for increasing chronic pain acceptance. Patient reported reductions in anger were corroborated by their significant others. The significant other corroborations offer a novel contribution to the literature and highlight the observable emotional and behavioral changes in the patient participants that occurred following the compassion intervention. Future studies may further examine how anger reductions impact relationships with self and others within the context of chronic pain.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Israel 1 <1%
Unknown 126 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 16%
Student > Master 19 15%
Researcher 16 13%
Student > Bachelor 15 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 26 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 55 43%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 9%
Neuroscience 6 5%
Social Sciences 4 3%
Other 9 7%
Unknown 29 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 69. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 September 2019.
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