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| G J AsmundsonSummaryAffiliation: University of Saskatchewan Country: Canada Publications
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Evidence of a disposition toward fearfulness and vulnerability to posttraumatic stress in dysfunctional pain patientsG J Asmundson
Clinical Research and Development Program, Regina Health District, Sask, Canada
Behav Res Ther 38:801-12. 2000..3%). These results suggest that MAP subgroups differ with regard to their propensity to be(come) fearful and in their likelihood of having PTSD. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed...- Anxiety and related factors in chronic painGordon J G Asmundson
University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Pain Res Manag 7:7-8. 2002 - Dimensionality of posttraumatic stress symptoms: a confirmatory factor analysis of DSM-IV symptom clusters and other symptom modelsG J Asmundson
Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Behav Res Ther 38:203-14. 2000..Implications for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment are also discussed... - A factor analytic study of the dizziness handicap inventory: does it assess phobic avoidance in vestibular referrals?G J Asmundson
Regina Health District, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
J Vestib Res 9:63-8. 1999..Implications for revising the DHI to provide a more comprehensive and factorially valid assessment of disability associated with vestibular disturbance are discussed... - Beyond pain: the role of fear and avoidance in chronicityG J Asmundson
Regina Health District, Clinical Research and Development Program, Saskatchewan, Canada
Clin Psychol Rev 19:97-119. 1999..Finally, we discuss the implications of the recent empirical findings for the assessment and treatment of individuals who experience disabling chronic musculoskeletal pain and suggest possible avenues for future investigation... - Pain assessment: state-of-the-art applications from the cognitive-behavioural perspectiveGordon J G Asmundson
Regina Health District, Clinical Research and Development Programme, Saskatchewan, Canada
Behav Res Ther 40:547-50. 2002 - Anxiety sensitivity and other emotionality traits in predicting headache medication use in patients with recurring headaches: implications for abuse and dependencyG J Asmundson
Clinical Research and Development Program, Regina Health District, Saskatchewan, Canada
Addict Behav 26:827-40. 2001..The models, while significant, accounted for relatively small amounts of variance. Implications of these results and issues of medication abuse and dependency are discussed... - Posttraumatic stress disorder and work-related injuryG J Asmundson
Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
J Anxiety Disord 12:57-69. 1998..Implications, including the suggestion of clinical intake screening of PTSD in this population, are discussed... - Panic disorder and vestibular disturbance: an overview of empirical findings and clinical implicationsG J Asmundson
Rehabilitation Research Department, Wascana Rehabilitation Centre, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
J Psychosom Res 44:107-20. 1998..Subsequent to this review we discuss clinical implications suggested by the data, outline recommendations for treatment, and highlight some directions for future investigation... - Anxiety sensitivity and fear of pain in patients with recurring headachesG J Asmundson
Clinical Research and Development Program, Regina Health District, Regina, Sask, Canada
Behav Res Ther 37:703-13. 1999..These results provide further evidence of the important association between AS and fear responses of patients with chronic pain syndromes. Implications and future directions are discussed... - Validation of the coping with health, injuries, and problems scale in a chronic pain sampleH D Hadjistavropoulos
Clinical Research and Development Program, Regina Health District, Saskatchewan, Canada
Clin J Pain 15:41-9. 1999..g., palliative, instrumental, distraction) responses to injury. The present investigation assessed the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the measure in patients (n = 203) with chronic musculoskeletal pain... - Validation of the Chronic Pain Coping InventoryH D Hadjistavropoulos
Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Pain 80:471-81. 1999..These results suggest the CPCI is a valuable tool, above and beyond established coping measures, in the clinical assessment and research of pain. Directions for future research are discussed... - Neurotic butterflies in my stomach: the role of anxiety, anxiety sensitivity and depression in functional gastrointestinal disordersG R Norton
Department of Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
J Psychosom Res 47:233-40. 1999..Implications of the observed association between psychological factors and FGI disorders are discussed... - Effect of a novel environment on resting heart rate in panic disorderD K Larsen
Clinical Research and Development Program, Regina Health District, Saskatchewan, Canada
Depress Anxiety 8:24-8. 1998..Implications for previous and future reports on resting heart rate measures in patients with panic disorder are discussed... - Factor analytic investigation of the Illness Attitudes Scale in a chronic pain sampleH D Hadjistavropoulos
Section for Clinical Outcomes Research, Regina Health District, Saskatchewan, Canada
Behav Res Ther 36:1185-95. 1998..Implications for the use of the measure with chronic pain patients, as well as future research directions for exploring the utility of this measure with chronic pain patients, are discussed... - Drinking away the hurt: the nature and prevalence of PTSD in substance abuse patients attending a community-based treatment programM F Bonin
University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 31:55-66. 2000..Further, when using a discriminant function analysis, self-report measures correctly classified 70% of the PTSD group and 80% of a composite group of possible PTSD and no PTSD participants. Implications of these results are discussed... - Factorial validity of the short-form McGill pain questionnaire (SF-MPQ)K D Wright
Regina Health District, 2180 23rd Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A5 Canada
Eur J Pain 5:279-84. 2001..Potential explanations for the disparity between the results of the two studies are explored and recommendations for continuing clinical and research applications are offered... - Panic attacks and interoceptive acuity for cardiac sensationsG J Asmundson
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Canada
Behav Res Ther 31:193-7. 1993..These results are discussed in terms of their relevance to cognitive models of panic... - Factorial validity of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire in men and womenK D Wright
Regina Health District, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Depress Anxiety 13:179-83. 2001..This investigation provides important information regarding sex differences in the factorial validity of the CTQ. Implications and future research directions are discussed... - Exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic investigations of the Illness Attitudes Scale in a nonclinical sampleH D Hadjistavropoulos
Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Sask, Canada
Behav Res Ther 37:671-84. 1999..Future directions for research as well as suggestions for scoring and using the IAS with nonclinical samples are discussed... - Is there a negative association between anxiety sensitivity and arousal-increasing substances and activities?L A McWilliams
University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
J Anxiety Disord 15:161-70. 2001..Implications of these findings are discussed with reference to future investigation... - Future directions in anxiety disorders: profiles and perspectives of leading contributorsP J Norton
Clinical Research and Development Program, Regina Health District, Saskatchewan, Canada
J Anxiety Disord 14:69-95. 2000..Heimberg, Donald F. Klein, and Isaac M. Marks. Each offered their thoughts on a set of questions concerning the current and future status of the anxiety disorders field. Profiles and perspectives of these individuals are presented... - Contributions of pain-related adjustment and perceptions of control to coping strategy use among cervical sprain patientsD L LaChapelle
Clinical Research and Development Program, Regina Health District and Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Eur J Pain 5:405-13. 2001..Implications for clinicians who assist patients via implementation or modification of particular coping techniques are discussed... - Anxiety sensitivity and its impact on pain experiences and conditions: a state of the artSherry H Stewart
Dalhousie University, Department of Psychiatry, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Cogn Behav Ther 35:185-8. 2006..Finally, we make several suggestions for directions for future investigations in this burgeoning area of cognitive behavioural research and practice... 
Anxiety disorders and comorbid medical illnessPeter P Roy-Byrne
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 30:208-25. 2008..To provide an overview of the role of anxiety disorders in medical illness...- Do fundamental fears differentially contribute to pain-related fear and pain catastrophizing? An evaluation of the sensitivity indexLinda M G Vancleef
Department of Medical, Clinical and Experimental Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Eur J Pain 10:527-36. 2006..The current study can be considered as an impetus for devoting attention to IS in future pain research... - The role of health anxiety among patients with chronic pain in determining response to therapyHeather D Hadjistavropoulos
University of Regina, Canada
Pain Res Manag 7:127-33. 2002..The results suggest that HA should be taken into consideration during treatment... - Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale-20 in a community physiotherapy clinic sampleMichael J Coons
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont, Canada
Eur J Pain 8:511-6. 2004..These results suggest that this measure has good utility for both clinical and research applications. Directions for future evaluation are also discussed... - Strategic and automatic threat processing in chronic musculoskeletal pain: a startle probe investigationR Nicholas Carleton
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Cogn Behav Ther 35:236-47. 2006..Implications and directions for future research are discussed... - Is high fear of pain associated with attentional biases for pain-related or general threat? A categorical reanalysisGordon J G Asmundson
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
J Pain 8:11-8. 2007..When fear of pain groups are derived by using measures of general and pain-specific fearfulness, people with high fear of pain are likely to selectively attend all potentially threatening stimuli in their environment... - Is the latent structure of fear of pain continuous or discontinuous among pain patients? Taxometric analysis of the pain anxiety symptoms scaleGordon J G Asmundson
Anxiety and Illness Behaviors Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
J Pain 8:387-95. 2007..The findings, indicating that fear of pain is continuous, are important for understanding the nature of fear of pain and to designing appropriately targeted interventions... - The relationship of adult attachment dimensions to pain-related fear, hypervigilance, and catastrophizingLachlan A McWilliams
Department of Psychology, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B4P 2R6
Pain 127:27-34. 2007..Future research directions and potential clinical implications are discussed... - Physical and mental comorbidity, disability, and suicidal behavior associated with posttraumatic stress disorder in a large community sampleJitender Sareen
Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Psychosom Med 69:242-8. 2007.... - The Fear of Pain Questionnaire-Short Form (FPQ-SF): factorial validity and psychometric propertiesGordon J G Asmundson
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Sask, Canada S4S 0A2
Pain 134:51-8. 2008..Use of this short version of the measure--the FPQ-Short Form--is discussed and directions for future research outlined... - An exploration of the psychometric properties of the PASS-20 with a nonclinical sampleMurray P Abrams
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
J Pain 8:879-86. 2007..Pain-related anxiety is identified as a continuous construct, robust across both clinical and nonclinical samples... - Evaluating the efficacy of graded in vivo exposure for the treatment of fear in patients with chronic back pain: a randomized controlled clinical trialMarc P Woods
Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada
Pain 136:271-80. 2008..Implications of these findings for the treatment of individuals with chronic low back and other pain conditions are discussed... - Acceptance and mindfulness-based therapy: new wave or old hat?Stefan G Hofmann
Department of Psychology, Boston University, 648 Beacon Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215 2002, United States
Clin Psychol Rev 28:1-16. 2008..Although there are fundamental differences in the philosophical foundation, ACT techniques are fully compatible with CBT and may lead to improved interventions for some disorders. Areas of future treatment research are discussed... - A longitudinal investigation of fear of falling, fear of pain, and activity avoidance in community-dwelling older adultsThomas Hadjistavropoulos
Department of Psychology and Centre on Aging and Health, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2
J Aging Health 19:965-84. 2007..The primary purpose of this study was to examine the role of fear of falling, fear of pain, and associated activity avoidance in the prediction of pain and falls... - Should CBT rest on its success?Gerhard Andersson
Cogn Behav Ther 37:1-4. 2008 - Associations between dimensions of anxiety sensitivity and PTSD symptom clusters in active-duty police officersGordon J G Asmundson
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory and The Traumatic Stress Group, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Cogn Behav Ther 37:66-75. 2008..These findings contribute to understanding the nature of association between AS and PTSD symptom clusters. Implications for the treatment of individuals having PTSD with and without panic-related symptomatology are discussed... - The Illness/Injury Sensitivity Index: an examination of construct validityR Nicholas Carleton
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Depress Anxiety 23:340-6. 2006..In addition, a substantial correlation with fear of pain suggests a shift in our perspective on what constitutes a fundamental fear. Future research implications are discussed... - Detection and management of malingering in people presenting for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder: methods, obstacles, and recommendationsSteven Taylor
Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
J Anxiety Disord 21:22-41. 2007.... - Measures of anxiety: is there a difference in their ability to predict functioning at three-month follow-up among pain patients?Heather D Hadjistavropoulos
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
Eur J Pain 8:1-11. 2004..It is concluded that the importance of various forms of anxiety is dependent on the timeframe and outcome examined. Clinical implications of the findings as well as directions for future research are discussed... - Pain and PTSD symptoms in female veteransGordon J G Asmundson
Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Eur J Pain 8:345-50. 2004..To date, however, the association has only been examined within samples of mostly male participants... - Anxiety sensitivity, fear, and avoidance behavior in headache painPeter J Norton
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 128 Heyne Bldg, Houston, TX 77204 5022, USA
Pain 111:218-23. 2004..These results provide compelling evidence that AS may play an important role in pain-related fear and escape and avoidance behavior in patients with recurrent headaches... - Using facial expressions to assess musculoskeletal pain in older personsThomas Hadjistavropoulos
Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Canada
Eur J Pain 6:179-87. 2002..The results support the utility of FACS in the assessment of musculoskeletal pain among seniors undergoing rehabilitation following knee surgery... - Brief report: factor structure of the Childhood Illness Attitude Scales (CIAS)Kristi D Wright
Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
J Pediatr Psychol 30:213-8. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that the CIAS possesses good psychometric properties, including factorial validity and internal consistency, and appears to be a psychometrically sound instrument for measuring children's health anxiety... - Dot-probe evaluation of selective attentional processing of pain cues in patients with chronic headachesGordon J G Asmundson
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
Pain 114:250-6. 2005..Implications of the findings and future research directions are discussed... - Is CBT already the dominant paradigm in psychotherapy research and practice?Gerhard Andersson
Cogn Behav Ther 34:1-2. 2005 - Hypervigilance and attentional fixedness in chronic musculoskeletal pain: consistency of findings across modified stroop and dot-probe tasksGordon J G Asmundson
Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
J Pain 6:497-506. 2005..Interventions that specifically target this attentional fixedness might facilitate shifting attention to other targets and thereby reduce pain-specific anxiety and fear... - A controlled trial of cognitive-behavior therapy combined with vestibular rehabilitation in the treatment of dizzinessGerhard Andersson
Department of Behavioural Sciences, Linkoping University, SE 581 83 Linkoping, Sweden
Behav Res Ther 44:1265-73. 2006..These findings provide preliminary support for the combination of Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and VR methods in the treatment of dizziness... - Fear of pain is elevated in adults with co-occurring trauma-related stress and social anxiety symptomsGordon J G Asmundson
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory and The Traumatic Stress Group, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Cogn Behav Ther 34:248-55. 2005..Implications for future research and treatment are discussed... - Strategies for managing symptoms of anxietyGordon J G Asmundson
Department of Psychology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada
Expert Rev Neurother 6:213-22. 2006..Expert consensus guidelines, prognostic factors, patient preferences and accessibility issues are discussed with regard to treatment selection in addition to emerging challenges in the field and future research directions... - CBT and religionGerhard Andersson
Cogn Behav Ther 35:1-2. 2006 - Fearing the unknown: a short version of the Intolerance of Uncertainty ScaleR Nicholas Carleton
Anxiety and Illness Behaviours Laboratory, University of Regina, Regina, Sask, Canada S4S 0A2
J Anxiety Disord 21:105-17. 2007..The IUS-12 also demonstrated a stable two-factor structure, representing both anxious and avoidance components of intolerance of uncertainty. Directions for future research and potential applications for assessment are discussed... - PTSD and the experience of pain: research and clinical implications of shared vulnerability and mutual maintenance modelsGordon J G Asmundson
Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina, Regina, SK S4S 0A2
Can J Psychiatry 47:930-7. 2002..The paper concludes with an overview of future research directions, as well as practical recommendations for assessing and treating patients who present with co-occurring PTSD or chronic pain symptoms...