title: Combined cognitive biases for pain and disability information in individuals with chronic headache: A preliminary investigation.
abstract: Pain-related cognitive biases have been demonstrated in chronic pain patients, yet despite theoretical predictions are rarely investigated in combination. Combined cognitive biases were explored in individuals with chronic headache ( n = 17) and pain-free controls ( n = 20). Participants completed spatial cueing (attentional bias), sentence generation (interpretation bias) and free recall tasks (memory bias), with ambiguous sensory-pain, disability and neutral words. Individuals with chronic headache, relative to controls, showed significantly greater interpretation and memory biases favouring ambiguous sensory-pain words and interpretation bias favouring ambiguous disability words. No attentional bias was found. Further research is needed exploring the temporal pattern of cognitive biases.
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Daniel E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Schoth
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Parry
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liossi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000070379:Attentional Bias; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D020773:Headache Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D058748:Pain Perception; D011287:Prejudice / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: chronic illness; cognitive processing; health psychology; pain; quantitative methods