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Survey Of Assessing Pain In Clinical Practice And Applicability Of A New Assessment, Michelle Rose Konz
Survey Of Assessing Pain In Clinical Practice And Applicability Of A New Assessment, Michelle Rose Konz
Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
SURVEY OF ASSESSING PAIN IN CLINICAL PRACTICE AND APPLICABILITY OF A
NEW ASSESSMENT
by
Michelle Konz
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2016
Under the Supervision of Professor Joyce Engel, PhD
Aims The purpose of this study is to identify pain assessments that are being used to measure an individual’s pain experience and to discover how occupational therapists are currently assessing pain in youths who have complex communication needs with a developmental disability (DD). Methods Phase 1: A literature review was conducted through the use of electronic databases to research 17 different methods of pain assessment to create descriptive charts to …
Chronic Pain Causal Attributions In An Interdisciplinary Primary Care Clinic: Patient-Provider And Provider-Provider Discrepancies, Bryan Jensen
Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of pain causal attributions on patient pain-related functioning, treatment engagement, and clinical outcomes. Additionally, the impact of discordant pain causal attributions between patients and their providers as well as between interdisciplinary providers was examined. Patients rated their pain functioning and causal pain attributions during a regular clinic visit. Following the patient’s visit both the behavioral medicine provider and internal medicine resident provided ratings of similar pain-related functioning domains and causal attributions. Follow-up data were collected from the electronic medical record three months following that clinic visit. Overall, results revealed …