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Pain Perception in Different Levels of Distraction

Dragutin IVANEC orcid.org/0000-0002-3051-3208 ; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb
Tomislav MILJAK ; Split
Robert FABER ; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

Sažetak

The aim of the study was to test the hypothesis on the effects of
distraction from pain perception as a cognitive-behavioural
technique in achieving analgesia. The basic assumption was that
a more distractive task will have more analgesic effects, and that
this effect will be greater in a situation of less intense painful
stimulation. 30 healthy students (28 female) participated in the
study. Half of the participants were stimulated with electro-
-cutaneous intensities which were near pain threshold, and the
other half with stimuli noticeably above pain threshold. During
electrical stimulation all the participants were in three different
situations regarding the level of distraction: control situation
without distraction, first level of distraction which included parallel
performance on tracking task, and second level of distraction
which included parallel performance on three distraction tasks:
tracking task, listening to music and backward counting. The
obtained result partly confirmed the presumptions. The distraction
was effective, i.e. painful stimulation was perceived as less
intensive compared to the control situation, but only in the
situation with three parallel distraction tasks. There was no
interaction effect between distraction and stimulus intensity.
Unexpectedly, there was an interaction effect of level of
distraction and task duration. Distraction was more effective only
in the first part of the measurement.

Ključne riječi

pain; distraction; attention; expectation; electro- -cutaneous stimulation

Hrčak ID:

62740

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62740

Datum izdavanja:

23.12.2010.

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