PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chronic Pain, Malingering, Suicidal Ideation
Document Summary
Pain is a strong motivator of behaviour. Pain importantly affects psychological health and well-being. Pain is more psychological than sensations or disease states; the link between injury and pain is weak. Thinking that one is badly hurt can render them more likely to experience pain. Wounds of similar severity produces different pain responses. Discrepancies between results of pain measurement in studies. Pain is the first reason the seek health care. Pain is the first concern of patients with chronic disease. 95. 2% of participants (university of florida undergraduates) have experienced pain from scratched skin and paper cut, > 94% from pinched skin, headaches, mosquito bite, etc. Not relevant but they also found out that 2. 2% had already been stabbed with a knife and 3. 2% had already been shot yay florida. Lifetime prevalence of chronic pain (lasting more than 3 months) was of about. Current prevalence of chronic pain was of about 25% No disease state comes even close to such prevalence.
