PSYC 2301 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
23 Feb 2016
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Final exam december 20 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Linked with long term illness or disease. 11/11/2013: chronic benign: 6 months+, intractable to treatment (low back pain, recurrent acute pain: series of intermittent episodes (migraine, tmj) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1, chronic progressive: 6 months+, increasing severity (rheumatoid arthritis) Affects 1 in10 canadians (about 1. 5 million) Rates are even higher in those over 65 and women. Costs in health care utilization and lose productivity are approximately billion annually. Over billion spent annually on otc meds (2007) Factors that influence symptoms can include: cultural differences. Some cultures report pain sooner and more intensely. Linked to differences in emotional processing of pain: coping styles: More intense labor pain (cid:1) (cid:1: verbal reports. Personal report of pain (acute/chronic) can be very subjective. There is no gold standard in measuring pain outcomes. Pt uses their experience and vocabulary to describe pair. Throbbing pain vs. shooting pain vs. dull ache.
