The Impact of Pain Invisibility on Patient-Centered Care and Empathetic Attitude in Chronic Pain Management
Table 1
Results of self-administrated questionnaires.
Participants ()
Age, mean (SD)
46.12 (10.84)
Gender, (%)
Male
13 (31)
Female
29 (69)
Profession, (%)
Nurse
21 (50)
Physician
21 (50)
Clinical experience, mean (SD)
19.74 (10.34)
F-PPOS total, mean (SD)
4.82 (0.39)
Sharing, mean (SD)
4.49 (0.59)
Caring, mean (SD)
5.16 (0.37)
F-JSPE, mean (SD)
116.53 (9.80)
SOS-PCC, mean (SD)
25.94 (3.86)
Patient with rheumatoid arthritis, mean (SD)
27.12 (3.88)
Patient with CRPS, mean (SD)
27.38 (4.30)
Patient with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, mean (SD)
26.02 (4.38)
Patient with fibromyalgia, mean (SD)
24.87 (5.11)
F-RES, mean (SD)
20.70 (3.41)
Patient with rheumatoid arthritis, mean (SD)
21.89 (3.59)
Patient with CRPS, mean (SD)
22.30 (3.25)
Patient with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, mean (SD)
20.34 (3.81)
Patient with fibromyalgia, mean (SD)
18.94 (4.05)
SD = standard deviation; F-PPOS = French version of Patient-Practitioner Orientation Scale; F-JSPE = French version of Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy; SOS-PCC = Sherbrooke Orientation Scale of patient-centered care; CRPS = complex regional pain syndrome; F-RES = French version of Reynolds Empathy Scale.
