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Pain Coping Profiles in Workers’ Compensation Clients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Cluster Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2015

Jennifer Sanchez ,
Jessica Brooks Open the ORCID record for Jessica Brooks [Opens in a new window] ,
Sandra Fitzgerald ,
David M. Strand ,
Aneta Leczycki ,
John Blake ,
Fong Chan  and
Gloria K. Lee
Jennifer Sanchez*
Affiliation:
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso
Jessica Brooks
Affiliation:
Department of Disability and Addiction Rehabilitation, University of North Texas
Sandra Fitzgerald
Affiliation:
Department of Counseling, San Francisco State University
David M. Strand
Affiliation:
Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Aneta Leczycki
Affiliation:
Pediatric Neuropsychology, Neuropsychology and Cpmplementary Medicine
John Blake
Affiliation:
Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling, and Counseling Psychology, West Virginia University
Fong Chan
Affiliation:
Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Gloria K. Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Michigan State University
*
Address for correspondence: Jennifer Sánchez, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Avenue, El Paso, TX 79968. Office: (915) 747-8240, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This study investigated pain coping profiles using the Coping Strategies Questionnaire-24 (CSQ-24) in a sample of 171 workers’ compensation clients with chronic musculoskeletal pain from Canada. Cluster analysis identified three distinct coping profiles: mixed coping, catastrophising, and positive coping. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) results revealed that the positive coping group had lower levels of activity interference and depression as well as higher levels of quality of life than the mixed coping and catastrophising groups. Study findings indicate clients with chronic musculoskeletal pain can be categorised according to pain coping strategies, and pain coping strategies used are related to rehabilitation outcomes. The implications of these pain coping profiles for rehabilitation counselling practice are discussed.

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Pain coping profileschronic musculoskeletal paincoping strategiesrehabilitationquality of life
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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , December 2015 , pp. 108 - 122
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2015 

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