title: Pain acceptance-based coping in complex regional pain syndrome Type I: daily relations with pain intensity, activity, and mood.
abstract: This study aimed to examine the temporal patterning of pain acceptance-based coping, activity, and mood in patients with complex regional pain syndrome Type I (CRPS-I), by using a daily diary method. A total of 30 patients with CRPS-I seeking treatment in a tertiary pain management center located in Seoul, Korea participated in the study. Multilevel random effects analyses indicated that (a) engagement in pain acceptance-based coping was significantly associated with lower same-day pain and negative mood and greater same-day activity and positive mood; (b) pain acceptance-based coping predicted increases in activity on the following day; (c) greater pain intensity was significantly associated with lower same-day pain acceptance-based coping and activity and greater same-day negative mood; and (d) pain intensity did not predict pain acceptance-based coping, activity, or mood on the following day. These findings suggest that patients with CRPS-I may benefit from responding to pain with acceptance. Further study and eventual application of this process in CRPS-I may improve upon the success of current approaches to this problem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University, 221 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 156-756, Korea. sungkunc@cau.ac.kr
authors.forename: Sungkun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Lance M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: McCracken
authors.forename: Elaine M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Heiby
authors.forename: Dong-Eon
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Moon
authors.forename: Jang-Han
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D064869:Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009043:Motor Activity; D059408:Pain Management; D012019:Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy / Q000523:psychology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome