Pain communication: An agenda for communication researchers

Hintz, Elizabeth A.

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Pain communication: An agenda for communication researchers

Hintz, Elizabeth A.·2020·Annals of the International Communication Association

DOI 10.1080/23808985.2020.1843368

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Chronic pain is a significant and costly public health issue which is affected by political, organizational, and interpersonal social processes. Although medical pain scholarship has long examined communication constructs and processes, communication research and theory have remained largely absent. Scholars of communication must lend their research to this important issue to understand the role of communication in constituting and shaping the social and behavioral forces identified as priorities for advancing pain research. To facilitate this aim, I offer an agenda which lays theoretical groundwork in eight areas for scholars across the discipline to begin examining pain communication. These approaches hold promise for contributing fruitfully to both understandings of communication and the social experience of pain more broadly.

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Authors: Hintz, E. A.
Affiliations: University of South Florida (US)
Corresponding author: Hintz, Elizabeth A.
ORCID: Hintz, Elizabeth A.
Venue: Annals of the International Communication Association
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2020-10-01
Volume: 44
Issue: 4
Pages: 401-421
ISSN: 2380-8977 (ISSN-L)
2380-8985
DOI: 10.1080/23808985.2020.1843368
OpenAlex: W3094667879
Cited by: 18
References: 158
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2
FWCI: 2.69
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Annals of the International Communication Association (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Communication › Communication Studies and Media
Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Medicine, History, and Philosophy
Keywords: pain communication, chronic pain, social construction of pain, interpersonal communication

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