The relationship of alexithymia to pain severity and impairment among patients with chronic myofascial pain: comparisons with self-efficacy, catastrophizing, and depression.

摘要: Objective: Alexithymia is elevated among patients with chronic pain, but the relationship of alexithymia to severity pain unclear. Also, studies have rarely examined whether unique from other, more widely studied constructs in literature (i.e., self-efficacy, catastrophizing, and depression), research has not how relates sensory versus affective dimensions pain. Methods: Among 80 myofascial we tested (Toronto Scale-20) was related three competing constructs—self-efficacy, depression—and as well physical impairment. We then determined remained correlated impairment when simultaneously each constructs. Results: Analyses controlled for patients' sex, age, marital status, duration moderately less self-efficacy greater substantially depression. positively both impairment, unrelated whereas all were types Regression analyses indicated that a significant independent correlate while controlling either or depression accounted alexithymia's no longer after any other Conclusion: Although component it unpleasantness catastrophizing. The emotional regulation deficits may lead depression, which appears mediate Alexithymia's be better by