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Exploring the contributions of sex and traditionally genderized interpersonal-expressive traits to variability in post-trauma pain ratings

OBJECTIVES: Multiple intra- and inter-individual variabilities sculpt the experience of pain. However, integration of sex and gender has been under-explored in explanatory models of pain. This study aimed to examine the role of sex and traditionally genderized interpersonal-expressive traits, and th...

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Autores principales: Ghodrati, Maryam, Walton, David M., MacDermid, Joy C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36477297
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278399
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description OBJECTIVES: Multiple intra- and inter-individual variabilities sculpt the experience of pain. However, integration of sex and gender has been under-explored in explanatory models of pain. This study aimed to examine the role of sex and traditionally genderized interpersonal-expressive traits, and their interactions in explaining the variability of pain ratings. METHODS: Data from 113 participants following acute non-catastrophic musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries were included. Participants completed the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and the Gender, Pain and Expectations Scale (GPES). An independent T-test was used to compare differences in BPI subscales between the sexes. Pearson correlations explored the associations between BPI and GPES subscale scores for the overall sample and also for the sample when disaggregated by sex. Multiple linear regression was used to investigate the interaction of sex and gender traits in explaining the BPI scores. RESULTS: No differences were found between the sexes in mean BPI Severity and Interference. Across sexes, Relationship-oriented was positively associated with greater BPI Severity (r = 0.20) and Emotive was positively associated with BPI Interference (r = 0.24). In sex-disaggregated analyses, these associations were significant in females only. Goal-oriented was associated with neither BPI Severity nor Interference. In multivariate regression, only Emotive was a significant predictor of BPI Interference. DISCUSSION: The findings suggest that variances in pain-related interference are partially explained by scores on a scale measuring self-perceptions of Emotive qualities. Sex was not predictive of either pain outcome in both bivariate and multivariate analyses. Researchers and clinicians are encouraged to consider both sex- and gender-based variables when interpreting patient pain reports.
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spelling pubmed-97289312022-12-08 Exploring the contributions of sex and traditionally genderized interpersonal-expressive traits to variability in post-trauma pain ratings Ghodrati, Maryam Walton, David M. MacDermid, Joy C. PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVES: Multiple intra- and inter-individual variabilities sculpt the experience of pain. However, integration of sex and gender has been under-explored in explanatory models of pain. This study aimed to examine the role of sex and traditionally genderized interpersonal-expressive traits, and their interactions in explaining the variability of pain ratings. METHODS: Data from 113 participants following acute non-catastrophic musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries were included. Participants completed the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and the Gender, Pain and Expectations Scale (GPES). An independent T-test was used to compare differences in BPI subscales between the sexes. Pearson correlations explored the associations between BPI and GPES subscale scores for the overall sample and also for the sample when disaggregated by sex. Multiple linear regression was used to investigate the interaction of sex and gender traits in explaining the BPI scores. RESULTS: No differences were found between the sexes in mean BPI Severity and Interference. Across sexes, Relationship-oriented was positively associated with greater BPI Severity (r = 0.20) and Emotive was positively associated with BPI Interference (r = 0.24). In sex-disaggregated analyses, these associations were significant in females only. Goal-oriented was associated with neither BPI Severity nor Interference. In multivariate regression, only Emotive was a significant predictor of BPI Interference. DISCUSSION: The findings suggest that variances in pain-related interference are partially explained by scores on a scale measuring self-perceptions of Emotive qualities. Sex was not predictive of either pain outcome in both bivariate and multivariate analyses. Researchers and clinicians are encouraged to consider both sex- and gender-based variables when interpreting patient pain reports. Public Library of Science 2022-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9728931/ /pubmed/36477297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278399 Text en © 2022 Ghodrati et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728931/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278399
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