Why be so picky about the D? When we add the D -- or disorder -- to the end of a personality trait (obsessive, compulsive) or mood state (anxiety), it is meant to indicate something very important: intensity and impairment.
A strong SOC was highly associated with lower pain intensity and impairment, better pain self-efficacy and less pain catastrophizing.
cLBP patients with depressive symptoms exhibit higher pain intensity, considerable impairment due to pain [ 6] and more passive avoidance behaviour than patients without comorbidity [ 7].
Third, the association of SOC remained significant for most outcomes (except pain intensity and impairment) even after controlling for important covariates, including the presence of major depression.
Careful follow-up psychophysical studies showed that pain intensity and impairment in sensory function could persist for more than one year after therapy withdrawal [ 1, 19].
The intensity of impairment depends not only on the degree of short stature, but also on the way the individuals perceive their height and their ability to cope with the stigma [ 19- 22].
Moreover, there are no simple screening tools to diagnose cognitive function in CKD5D patients [ 8] While there is no doubt that severe uremia impairs cognitive function, the effect of a single dialysis session or dialysis intensity on cognitive impairment is controversially discussed.
Another limitation was our use of different scales for headache intensity and headache impairment in the interviews and diaries, preventing a determination of levels of agreement.
Reliable information on headache characteristics, including frequency and intensity, headache-associated impairment, and use of analgesic medications, may depend on the assessment method used.
