Question

1- In regards to psychological aspects of pain, where do you stand in the intersection of psychiatric and chronic pain?

Do you think psychiatric disorders cause chronic pain? Or does chronic pain cause psychiatric disorders?

2- One of the pain assessment methods is Visual Analog Scales (VAS), read the attached article and answer two of the following questions:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of VAS?

What are the two disciplines that VAS theory based on?

List the three problems with VAS.   

Attachment:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0272989X0102100408

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Answer 1

Do you think psychiatric disorders cause chronic pain? Or does chronic pain cause psychiatric disorders?
In my opinion, most of the time, it is the psychiatric disorders that cause chronic pain. The first reason is that people who have psychiatric disorders will hurt themselves because they might not know what they are doing. Secondly, people around them will keep yelling and shouting at them, so they will undergo that pain as well. In the absence of a normal living people will undergo severe physical and mental pain throughout.

2- One of the pain assessment methods is Visual Analog Scales (VAS), read the attached article and answer two of the following questions:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of VAS?
Advantages
Compared to other techniques such as SG, TTO etc,, it's quick thus saving time.
VAS is relatively easy and Good for assessor.
Disadvantages
It could assess only 6 mental states at any given time
Although it was thought to be easy, it poses great difficulty the respondents thus not user friendly.

What are the two disciplines that VAS theory based on?
Decision sciences/economics and Psychology.

List the three problems with VAS.
Defined Anchors - Scales of bottom and top
Measurement Biases - Analysis happens from the respondents response.
Disagreement between the VAS and the SG