Mark Schütze

Low mindfulness predicts pain catastrophizing in a fear-avoidance model of chronic pain.

Pain January 2010 Robert Schütze, Clare S. Rees, Minette Preece et al.

The relationship between persistent pain and self-directed, non-reactive awareness of present-moment experience (i.e., mindfulness) was explored in one of the dominant psychological theories of chronic pain - the fear-avoidance model[53]. A heterogeneous sample of 104 chronic pain outpatients at a multidisciplinary pain clinic in Australia completed psychometrically sound self-report measures...