title: Readiness to adopt a self-management approach to chronic pain: the Pain Stages of Change Questionnaire (PSOCQ).
abstract: This manuscript describes the development and initial validation of a self-report questionnaire designed to assess an individual's readiness to adopt a self-management approach to their chronic pain condition. Theory and preliminary empirical work informed the development of a pool of items that were administered to a sample of individuals reporting chronic pain. Analyses of the data support a four factor measure that is consistent with the transtheoretical model of change and associated stages of change model. Each of the four factors, precontemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance, was found to be internally consistent and stable over time. There was also substantial support for each factor's discriminant and criterion-related validity.
authors.affiliation: VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven 06516, USA. kerns.r@forum.va.gov
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Kerns
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Jamison
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Caudill
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haythornthwaite
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003710:Demography; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D059408:Pain Management; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires