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Psychological Flexibility in Coping With Chronic Pain: Further Examination of the Brief Pain Coping Inventory-2 (2014)
Journal Article
Vowles, K. E., McCracken, L. M., Sowden, G., & Ashworth, J. (2014). Psychological Flexibility in Coping With Chronic Pain: Further Examination of the Brief Pain Coping Inventory-2. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 30(4), 324-330. https://doi.org/10.1097/ajp.0b013e31829ea187

Objective:
The role of coping in chronic pain management is well established. One challenge to the coping approach, however, is in identifying forms of coping that reliably lead to better functioning. An emerging approach to coping is based on the... Read More about Psychological Flexibility in Coping With Chronic Pain: Further Examination of the Brief Pain Coping Inventory-2.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: Evidence of Mediation and Clinically Significant Change Following an Abbreviated Interdisciplinary Program of Rehabilitation (2013)
Journal Article
Vowles, K. E., Witkiewitz, K., Sowden, G., & Ashworth, J. (2014). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: Evidence of Mediation and Clinically Significant Change Following an Abbreviated Interdisciplinary Program of Rehabilitation. Journal of Pain, 15(1), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2013.10.002

There is an emerging body of evidence regarding interdisciplinary acceptance and commitment therapy in the rehabilitative treatment of chronic pain. This study evaluated the reliability and clinical significance of change following an open trial that... Read More about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain: Evidence of Mediation and Clinically Significant Change Following an Abbreviated Interdisciplinary Program of Rehabilitation.

Opioid use among low back pain patients in primary care: Is opioid prescription associated with disability at 6-month follow-up? (2013)
Journal Article
Ashworth, J., Green, D. J., Dunn, K. M., & Jordan, K. P. (2013). Opioid use among low back pain patients in primary care: Is opioid prescription associated with disability at 6-month follow-up?. PAIN, 1038 - 1044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2013.03.011

Opioid prescribing for chronic noncancer pain is increasing, but there is limited knowledge about longer-term outcomes of people receiving opioids for conditions such as back pain. This study aimed to explore the relationship between prescribed opioi... Read More about Opioid use among low back pain patients in primary care: Is opioid prescription associated with disability at 6-month follow-up?.

Prognostic factors in non-surgically treated sciatica: a systematic review (2011)
Journal Article
Ashworth, J., Konstantinou, K., & Dunn, K. M. (2011). Prognostic factors in non-surgically treated sciatica: a systematic review. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 208 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-12-208

BACKGROUND: When present sciatica is considered an obstacle to recovery in low back pain patients, yet evidence is limited regarding prognostic factors for persistent disability in this patient group. The aim of this study is to describe and summaris... Read More about Prognostic factors in non-surgically treated sciatica: a systematic review.