Stigma and chronic pain: How does stigma get under the skin? Ghent University
Chronic nonmalignant pain is a major health complaint. Although chronic pain often has a major
impact upon patients’functioning, not all patients with chronic pain suffer or are disabled to the
same extent. Several health psychological models have been developed to explain this variability.
For example, the Fear-Avoidance Model predicts that pain-related catastrophizing (i.e., the degree
to which ...