Another form of bias originates in patients' predisposition to endorse symptoms because of dysphoria, negative affectivity, or readiness to attribute distress to some preferred, rather than actual, source when queried by the interviewer.
She attributed her distress over this to lack of control during the procedure and linked it to her childhood: … you know you ' ve got to go to theatre and you know, you know – what they ' re gonna do basically … Um – maybe, maybe it ' s as – it feels like it, as if it ' s abuse again ….
The results of the present study point out to a difficulty experienced by adults in noticing pain in infants and attributing perceived distress to pain.
In her e-mail interview, Ms. Harrison attributed the financial distress to the "downturn in the economy and a dramatic decrease in fund-raising".
Then, in July 1984, Mr. Whelan was fired in what the newspaper said was a dispute over his salary but Mr. Whelan, in a news conference, loudly attributed to his distress over the paper's loss of editorial independence.
In a review article examining HRQoL in colectomy patients, HRQoL was low at baseline due to worry and distress attributed to the recent cancer diagnosis, but within one year patients had HRQoL scores comparable to the general population [17].
20 Delay in help seeking has also been attributed to the distress caused by a false alarm, and to reassurance from a benign diagnosis.
Interestingly, many of the patients who scored poorly on psychological outcomes in these questionnaires commented that they attributed their postoperative distress and anxiety to the discomfort and pain they experienced as a result of the graft harvest.
36 Similarly, the results from a Swedish longitudinal population-based cohort suggest that over a quarter of the DPs awarded for somatic diagnoses could be attributed to psychological distress.
The results obtained here demonstrate disagreement among health caregivers and parents as to the intensity of neonatal pain and distress attributed by these groups of adults to the observed infants and showed that there was no correlation between the assessments of pain and of distress made by the adults, regardless of their profession.
