Illness and treatment beliefs and health outcomes in chronic pain: a meta-analysis.
Objective: Guided by the common-sense model of illness self-regulation, we examined zero-order and unique associations between illness and treatment beliefs and functioning and illness outcomes in a synthesis of research on chronic pain patients, and tested moderator and covariate effects on these a...
| Published in: | Psychology & Health Vol. 41; no. 7; pp. 998 - 1036 |
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| Format: | research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=194782774&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 194782774 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 08870446 7WK jtl: Psychology & Health issn: 08870446 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2026 vid: 41 iid: 7 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 194782774 184944204 194782774 194782774 10.1080/08870446.2025.2497417 194782774 ppf: 998 ppct: 38 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Illness and treatment beliefs and health outcomes in chronic pain: a meta-analysis. aug: au: Hagger, Martin S. McKinley-Rodriguez, Lauren E. Hamilton, Kyra affil: Department of Psychological Sciences, University of California, Merced, USA sug: subj: Chronic Pain Psychosocial Factors Health Beliefs Treatment Outcomes Adaptation, Psychological Human Systematic Review Psycinfo PubMed Meta Analysis Descriptive Statistics Community Role Emotions Chronic Pain Diagnosis Self Care Health Status Coping ab: Objective: Guided by the common-sense model of illness self-regulation, we examined zero-order and unique associations between illness and treatment beliefs and functioning and illness outcomes in a synthesis of research on chronic pain patients, and tested moderator and covariate effects on these associations. Methods and Measures: Studies reporting associations between illness and treatment beliefs and outcomes in chronic pain patients (k = 93, N = 18,262) were identified in a systematic database search. Data were analyzed using multi-level meta-analysis and meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM). Results: We found averaged zero-order intercorrelations among the illness and treatment beliefs and chronic pain outcomes (physical and psychological impairment, disease status, social/role functioning). Moderator analyses indicated that relations between perceived consequences and social/role functioning were larger, and between emotional representations and illness status smaller, in patients diagnosed with a pain condition relative to those without a diagnosis. MASEM indicated unique effects of perceived control and consequences beliefs on physical impairment, causal beliefs on psychological impairment, identity beliefs on disease status, and treatment beliefs on social/role functioning. Conclusions: Findings identify belief-based correlates of pain-related outcomes and provide formative evidence to guide pain management intervention strategies. Future longitudinal and experimental studies should permit causal inferences in model effects and test coping strategies as a candidate mechanism. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: meta analysis research systematic review tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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