Cognitive and affective predictors of high impact chronic pain
Work Package 2A
WP2A is based at the University of Bath and Ghent University and is interested in understanding cognitive and affective factors that cause high impact chronic pain (HICP). Particularly, they are interested in how these factors might cause transitions between different states of chronic pain (e.g. high impact to low impact chronic pain.
Eccleston C, Begley E, Birkinshaw H, Choy EH, Crombez G, Fisher E, et al. The establishment, maintenance, and adaptation of high- and low-impact chronic pain: a framework for biopsychosocial pain research. Pain. 2023
WP2A uses directed acyclic graphs (DAG) to explore the role of these factors in chronic pain transitions.
The research team are currently exploring two separate factors in different models. These are executive function (i.e., how we think and solve problems) and chronotype (i.e., morning larks and night owls) and how these may cause some key transitions across pain states.
Work Package 2A team
- Professor Christopher Eccleston – Work-Package Lead
- Professor Geert Crombez – Co-Investigator
- Dr Emma Fisher – Co-Investigator
- Professor Edmund Keogh – Co-Investigator
- Dr Victoria Collard – Research Associate
- Dr Annick De Paepe – Research Associate
- Dr Beate Elhardt – Research Fellow
- Anna Gibby – Doctoral Researcher
- Sarah Gazdar – Research Assistant
- Laura Oporto Lisboa – Research Associate
