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.

数以百万计的美国人患有慢性疼痛或其他肌肉骨骼疼痛障碍。对于许多人来说，病因尚未得到充分理解，没有存在基础组织损害的明确证据，疼痛是高度背景的。体育锻炼是某些形式的慢性疼痛的有效治疗工具，但是许多患者觉得运动是痛苦的。新兴的理论和证据表明，个体学会编码和解释身体感觉为与组织损伤有关的疼痛信号。他们将意义带入疼痛和相关的感觉。研究者的提议旨在检查疼痛的含义与含义的物理相关性之间的关系，归因于一群人自愿诱发痛苦和痛苦的人之间的感觉。该项目的目的是利用运动员探索是否以及如何，含义，痛苦和运动相互关联，并利用这些见解将其推广到非运动员人群中。这项研究旨在评估人类是否将人类归因于他们的世界是否会影响他们在世界上的看法和表现。为此，研究人员将1）采访30名耐力运动员，以使他们对痛苦和痛苦的认知模型有了解，然后2）使用对文化模型的理解来开发在线调查，该调查将部署给运动员和非运动员，以测试耐力运动员对身体感觉的理解是否与非运动员的理解是否不同。然后3）在耐力运动员的样本中，研究人员将进一步测试运动员的意义属性是否与实际测量的身体性能有关。这项研究将允许对运动员中的意义属性和疼痛联系在一起的理论，然后可以为非运动员种群中的疼痛治疗和疗法提供更一般的见解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估我们被认为是诚实的支持。