Research Article
Attentional Engagement for Pain-Related Information among Individuals with Chronic Pain: The Role of Pain Catastrophizing
Table 2
Descriptive statistics of demographic information and pain-related and psychological variables by three types of pain diagnosis groups.
| | Variables | Mean (SD) | F/χ2 | | Back pain (N = 17) | Head pain (N = 17) | Other pain (N = 16) |
| | Age | 21.64 (1.65) | 21.64 (2.24) | 22.00 (2.25) | 0.179 | | Gender | | | | 1.705 | | Male | 42.90% | 14.30% | 40.90% | | | Female | 57.10% | 85.70% | 59.10% | | | Chronic pain durations (months) | 39.14 (31.06) | 46.79 (33.41) | 51.27 (24.88) | 0.739 | | Average pain intensity in past 3 months (1–10) | 6.50 (1.23) | 6.71 (1.14) | 6.14 (1.28) | 1.011 | | Pain days per month | 14.29 (6.11) | 15.57 (8.58) | 18.32 (7.1) | 1.424 | | Pain disability index | 31.86 (11.99) | 33.50 (13.95) | 28.23 (13.98) | 0.727 | | Pain catastrophizing | 19.50 (9.92) | 20.00 (8.92) | 20.27 (8.46) | 0.032 | | Depression | 22.07 (8.67) | 23.43 (12.35) | 20.45 (11.70) | 0.313 | | Trait anxiety | 47.64 (8.58) | 48.43 (8.59) | 47.05 (11.02) | 0.086 | | Total gaze duration to pain | 1.180 (0.304) | 1.269 (0.293) | 1.281 (0.266) | 0.584 | | Total gaze duration to anger | 1.148 (0.285) | 1.222 (0.285) | 1.280 (0.242) | 1.044 |
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