A contextual approach on sex-related biases in pain judgements: the moderator effects of evidence of pathology and patients' distress cues on nurses' judgements of chronic low-back pain.

摘要: Although women report feeling more pain than men, their is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. By proposing a gender-based theoretical conceptualisation, we argue that such sex-related biases may be enhanced or suppressed by contextual variables pertaining to the clinical situation, perceiver patient. Consequently, aimed explore moderator role of two clinically relevant in chronic low-back (CLBP) scenario: diagnostic evidence pathology (EP) behaviours conveying distress. One-hundred twenty-six female nurses (M = 35.33, SD = 7.64) participated an experimental between-subjects design, 2 (patient's sex) × 2 (EP: present vs. absent) × 2 (pain behaviours: with without distress). Independent were operationalised vignettes depicting patient CLBP. Nurses judged patient's on several dimensions: (1) credibility; (2) disability; (3) severity situation; (4) psychological attributions (5) willingness t...