Psychology and Pain (CHAMP: PP)
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Pain Psychology (CHAMP: PP) is studying the role of psychological factors in pain and pain-related ill-health. We explore the fundamental psychological mechanisms in pain, in order to utilize this information for enhancing clinical assessments as well as for developing preventive and treatment interventions. Our current research interests are psychological treatment (CBT) for vulvodynia, preventive interventions to decrease sick leave for pain and emotional ill-health, communication around pain in work and health care contexts, pain related vigilance and expectancy, pain in adolescents, pain at different stages of life, opioid use for chronic pain, and psychological treatment for pain patients with comorbid emotional ill-health. Because patients with chronic pain often suffer from multiple problems, we employ the so-called transdiagnostic approach, exploring underlying processes that may drive co-occurring problems, e.g. pain and depression or pain and sleep difficulties.
Contact: Katja Boersma, or Ida Flink,
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Researchers
- Sofia Bergbom
- Katja Boersma
- Johan Carstens-Söderstrand
- Sara Edlund
- Linnea Engman
- Ida Flink
- Steven J. Linton
- Martien Schrooten
- Matilda Wurm
- Tove Axelsson Landberg, PhD student
- Elsa Ekelin, PhD student
- Elin Ekholm, PhD student
- Linnea Engman, PhD student
- Sara Nygren, PhD student
- Christiana Owiredua, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- Communication about sex
- Effect of multimodal rehabilitation for patients with chronic pain problems
- Prevent Sick leave (PS): An RC T on the effects of a workplace focused program to prevent stress- and pain-related sick leave
- ReActivate: Physiotherapy led intervention for adolescents with pain and psychological distress
- Sex and Pain (SAP)
- The Hybrid Project. Transdiagnostic emotion focused treatment for emotional and somatic comorbidity. A SCED on implementation and effectiveness in primary care
- Understanding long-term opioid treatment to patients with chronic non-cancer pain in order to develop a method that promotes proper treatment.
- VENUS: CBT group program + for women with superficial dyspareunia - a randomised controlled trial
- What's next? The influence of (in)validating communication on pain anticipation
- Will it hurt? Attentional bias to signals predicting pain
