Cultural Models of Pain and Cognition

疼痛和认知的文化模型

• 批准号: 2020234
• 负责人: Craig Hadley
• 金额: $ 4.6万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020234&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cultural; Models; Pain; Cognition

Millions of Americans suffer from chronic pain or other musculoskeletal pain disorders. For many, the etiology is not well understood, clear evidence of underlying tissue damage is not present, and the pain is highly contextual. Physical activity is an effective therapeutic tool for some forms of chronic pain, yet many sufferers feel movement is painful. Emerging theory and evidence suggest that individuals learn to encode and interpret bodily sensations as pain signals linked to tissue damage; they attach meaning to the pain and related sensations. The investigator proposes to examine the relationship between the meaning given to pain and the physiological correlates of the meaning attributed to sensation among a group of individuals for whom pain and suffering are voluntarily induced. The aim of the project is to use athletes to explore if, and how, meaning, pain, and movement are interrelated and to use those insights to generalize to non-athlete populations.This study is designed to assess if the meaning humans attribute to their world influences their perceptions and performances in the world. To do so, the investigator will 1) interview 30 endurance athletes to generate an understanding of their cognitive models of pain and suffering, and then 2) use this understanding of cultural models of pain to develop an online survey that will be deployed to athletes and non-athletes to test whether endurance athlete’s understanding of bodily sensations differs from non-athletes. Then 3) within a sample of endurance athletes, the investigator will further test whether athletes’ meaning attribution is associated with actual measures of physical performance. The study will allow a test of the theory that meaning attribution and pain are linked within athletes, which may then provide more general insights to pain treatment and therapies in a non-athlete population.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

数百万美国人患有慢性疼痛或其他肌肉骨骼疼痛疾病。对于许多人来说，病因还不清楚，没有明确的证据表明潜在的组织损伤，并且疼痛是高度相关的。身体活动是治疗某些形式慢性疼痛的有效工具，但许多患者感到运动是痛苦的。新兴的理论和证据表明，个体学会将身体感觉编码和解释为与组织损伤相关的疼痛信号;他们将意义与疼痛和相关感觉联系起来。研究者建议检查的意义之间的关系给予疼痛和生理相关的意义归因于一组人的疼痛和痛苦是自愿诱导的感觉。该项目的目的是利用运动员来探索意义、疼痛和运动是否以及如何相互关联，并利用这些见解来推广到非运动员人群。本研究旨在评估人类赋予世界的意义是否会影响他们在世界上的感知和表现。为此，研究人员将1）采访30名耐力运动员，以了解他们对疼痛和痛苦的认知模型，然后2）使用这种对疼痛文化模型的理解来开发一项在线调查，该调查将部署到运动员和非运动员中，以测试耐力运动员对身体感觉的理解是否与非运动员不同。然后3）在耐力运动员样本中，研究者将进一步测试运动员的意义归因是否与身体表现的实际测量相关。该研究将测试运动员体内意义归因和疼痛相关的理论，从而为非运动员人群的疼痛治疗和疗法提供更普遍的见解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。