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The maximum score for the CAT subscale is 36 and indicates more catastrophizing thoughts.
Those who are dissatisfied with their social participation tend to experience considerably more catastrophizing thoughts.
More severe disability and less satisfaction with participation at the start of treatment are associated with more catastrophizing thoughts thereafter.
In contrast to other findings (e.g., Wade et al. [ 50]), we found that greater pain intensity at t0 was not a predictor for more catastrophizing thoughts.
The hypotheses were based on existing literature of the PCS and its relation to different aspects of health, e.g. more catastrophizing thoughts has been found to be associated with more distress, disability and fear avoidance beliefs [ 1, 5, 32].
These patients were more disabled, had more pain, more catastrophizing thoughts, more symptoms of depression, lower self-efficacy, and poorer health-related quality of life than patients without kinesiophobia.
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Women reporting more catastrophic thoughts tended to be lower in perceived control over flushes.
Treatment components may include discussing the relation between stress and pain, identifying catastrophizing thoughts, exploring the utility of catastrophizing as a coping response and replacing catastrophizing thoughts [ 56].
Psychological factors including catastrophizing thoughts are believed to influence the development of chronic low back pain (LBP).
Structural equation modeling was used to generate latent variables of pain-related distress and pain intensity from measures used to identify patients at high risk (fear-avoidance beliefs, depression, anxiety, and catastrophizing thoughts).
Reference: Non-severe functional impairment = ODI < 41%[ 69] 10 Six catastrophizing thoughts, never-always, 0-6, are summarized, 0-36.
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