PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Pain, Menstrual Cycle

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2301
• Professor: Tarry Ahuja

Document Summary

Psyc 2301 chapter 10: pain & its management. *all content belongs to tarry ahuja & where cited in lecture slides* Acute pain: caused by soft tissue damage, infection, inflammation. Chronic pain: linked w/ long-term illness or disease, can trigger other issues, may have no apparent cause, difficult to assess & diagnose. Types of chronic pain: chronic benign 6 month+, intractable to treatment (low back pain, recurrent acute pain series of intermittent episodes (migraine, tmj, chronic progressive 6 month+, increasing severity (rheumatoid arthritis) Affects 1 in 10 canadians (~1. 5 million) Rates = even higher in those over 65, & women. Costs in health care utilization & lost productivity = approx. Over billion spent annually on otc meds (2007) Factors influencing symptoms can include: cultural differences. Some cultures report pain sooner & more intensely. Linked to differences in emotional processing of pain: coping styles. Personal report of pain (acute/chronic) can be very subjective. No gold standard in measuring pain outcomes.