NSC 4312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Coronary Artery Disease, Pain Scale, Pain Management
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Anger and health: anger and health, evidence base linking anger and health. Type a behavior pattern: competiveness, competitive, self-critical, accomplishment without joy. It permeates every aspect of their life: time urgency, sense of urgency, impatient, tightly scheduled. Irritation/anger/ hostility: easily aroused, envious, lacking compassion. For the arousal think about level 1 where it talks about enhancing/ diminishing. Anger and pain: headaches, high levels of anger are often associated with headaches, pain sensitivity, refers more to the threshold of pain, when it comes uncomfortable. Their sensitivity/threshold is quicker or lower than other people: pain severity. The more one hold in anger the quicker the severity. Impacts on perception/report: as people get angry the subjective pain scale changes, appraisal and coping again, also effects the retrospective. Even if the daily diary does not suggest so. It colors the way the see their pain.
