Pain: Open to interpretation?

该项目旨在确定疼痛解释如何驱动疼痛体验，使用严格的最先进的实验室研究。这个项目期望产生关于维持疼痛体验和回避行为的心理机制的新知识，使用新的技术来测量对疼痛感觉的解释。预期结果包括基于证据的疼痛解释心理学模型的发展，建立国际合作的能力增强，以及测量疼痛解释的生态有效方法。这项研究为进一步的转化研究提供了坚实的平台，以建立新颖的、可扩展的干预措施，以改善五分之一的澳大利亚慢性疼痛患者的预后。

This project aims to determine how pain interpretation drives pain experience, using rigorous state-of-the-art lab research. This project expects to generate new knowledge about the psychological mechanisms maintaining pain experience and avoidance behaviour, using novel techniques to measure interpretation of pain sensations. Expected outcomes include the development of an evidence-based psychological model of pain interpretation, enhanced capacity to build international collaborations, and ecologically valid methods for measuring pain interpretation. This research forms a solid platform for further translational research, to build novel, scalable interventions to improve outcomes for the one in five Australians living with chronic pain.