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Purpose
Assesses patients' attitudes and beliefs about pain
Authors
Mark P. Jensen, PhD, and Paul Karoly, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
Understand the Pain-Related Beliefs of your Chronic Pain Patients
Both adaptive and maladaptive beliefs are assessed
- Adaptive Beliefs scales consist of Control and Emotion; Maladaptive Beliefs scales consist of Disability, Harm, Medication, Solicitude, and Medical Cure.
- Patients are asked to indicate their level of agreement with 57 statements using a 5-point Likert scale.
- Can be used in a variety of testing situations, including pretreatment screening to determine treatment necessity, pretreatment and posttreatment to determine treatment effectiveness, and periodic reevaluations to document treatment progress.
Easily detect score elevations and monitor progress
- The Profile Form includes a skyline for clinically elevated scores and treatment goals.
- Reliable change scores help you determine the significance of differences between scores obtained on two different testing occasions (e.g., pretreatment vs. posttreatment).
- A validity scale is included to measure inconsistency of responses.
- Norms are based on a sample of 415 patients with chronic pain.
- Validity is discussed in terms of evidence based on intercorrelations among the scales, correlational analyses examining the relationships between SOPA scores and scores on related measures (i.e., mental health/psychological functioning, physical dysfunction/disability, medical utilization), and the use of the SOPA as a measure of treatment outcome.
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