Pain Catastrophizing in Cancer Patients.

Sebastiano MercadantePatrizia FerreraAlessio Lo CascioAlessandra Casuccio

Published in: Cancers (2024)

Catastrophism was not associated with the levels of pain intensity, PSG, PSGR, and PGI for pain, except the rumination subscale that was associated with pain intensity at T0. A comprehensive palliative care management provided the relevant changes in symptom burden, undoing the pain expression associated with rumination.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
palliative care
high intensity
risk factors
postoperative pain