Perception of pain in the quality of life of the population form the perspective of health psychology
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This research work aims to investigate the perception of pain in adult patients, and how pain affects their quality of life. An online survey was conducted with a sample of 173 participants. Data was collected on pain perception with the Numerical Pain Scale (EN, González et al, 1995) and on quality of life with the WHOQOL-BRIEF scale (Lucas, 1998), including other important variables such as emotions, physical exercise and satisfaction with public health care. The results obtained demonstrate the initial hypothesis, associating a worse quality of life to people suffering from pain, constituting a high cost of health resources, and with the highest rated emotions being frustration and anxiety. All this sheds light on the need to propose specific psychotherapeutic interventions from general health psychology as an alternative and/or complement to the use of pharmaceutical medication.
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