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Validating pain communication: current state of the science
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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Corresponding author. Address: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, 2200 W Main Street, Suite 340 Durham, NC, USA 27705Tel: (919) 416-3400; fax: 919-416-345. E-mail address: [email protected] (F. J. Keefe). Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article.
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“Finally, higher levels of validation were not related to patient reports of pain or symptoms of anxiety or depression.”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Empirical studies of validation
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- Could not verifycites [1] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Method (Participants; page unavailable) reports patients’ pain intensity, but the Results (Correlations; page unavailable) examine validation in relation to spouse responses to pain and relationship functioning, not patients’ pain reports. Searches for validation alongside pain intensity, anxiety, and depression found no passage assessing the claimed relationships. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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The Methods (2.1 and 2.2, page unavailable) describe patients’ pain-intensity reports and observed spousal validation, but the retrieved Results do not relate validation to pain intensity. The Procedure (2.3, page unavailable) says a mood interview was not part of this study. Searches for validation in relation to pain, anxiety, and depression found no passage establishing the claimed lack of association. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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The Methods (section 2.2, page unavailable) describe observed spousal validation, and the Participants section (2.1, page unavailable) reports patients’ pain intensity. Neither those passages nor the Discussion’s account of validation associations reports whether validation was related to pain reports, anxiety symptoms, or depression symptoms. Searches for those outcomes and their correlations with validation found no passage addressing the claim. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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“Despite the potential benefits of validation, some research suggests that receiving social reinforcement (including validation) after sharing pain-related thoughts and feelings may be associated with worse patient outcomes such as increased pain[22].”
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“One potentially important factor that has been relatively understudied until recently is the level of validation that may or may not be provided by people who are the recipients of a pain communication [4].”
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“A valuable addition to the conceptualization of validation has been the growing emphasis placed on considering whether or not a person feels validated by a listener’s response.[10; 15]”
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“If a patient with pain feels understood and validated, it will likely influence their emotional state and their behaviors differently than if they perceive that others respond but do not understand them.”
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“Alternatively, if validation occurs after someone discloses thoughts or feelings related to pain, this type of disclosure is likely to increase.”
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“There is growing recognition that pain communication is important, and the way that people (e.g. partners, healthcare providers) respond to patients sharing their pain-related thoughts and feelings may have significant implications for pain-related outcomes[8].”
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“beliefs which are likely to lead to increases in psychological distress and negative affect.”
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“Thus, if validation occurs after someone talks about their pain or shows other pain behaviors (see Figure 1, Panel A), then the likelihood of pain behaviors will increase.”
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“Without intervention, some significant others may engage in validating behaviors right after patients provide detailed descriptions of pain without realizing that these validating behaviors have the potential to reinforce maladaptive pain behaviors such as focusing on the pain, spending excessive time reclining, or over-reliance on others for assistance.”
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- Rests on an assumption: People with ongoing pain probably discuss it with close others, and many of those others likely respond with attention or help.
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“Many patients with chronic pain believe that others do not understand their pain or even consider their pain condition to be legitimate[9]”
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“Several experimental research studies have provided support for the idea that reductions in negative affect may lead to reductions in pain[18–20; 23]”
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“The operant conditioning model[5] focuses on the role that social reinforcement plays in the development and maintenance of maladaptive and adaptive responses to persistent pain.”
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“Three theoretical models can be used to predict how validation of pain-related thoughts and feelings may influence patient outcomes: the operant conditioning model, the biosocial model, and the interpersonal process model of intimacy.”
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“Participants in the validation condition also reported greater satisfaction with the interview compared to participants in the invalidation condition.”
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“Neither study measured perceived validation or invalidation from the perspective of the participant”
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“A number of studies have used the Validation and Invalidation Behavioral Coding System (VIBCS[7]) to code validation occurring in interactions between patients with chronic pain and their partners.[1–3]”
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“Second, these behaviors were found to be distinct from other spousal responses such as partner solicitousness.”
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“Additionally, neither study measured aspects of the pain experience beyond pain intensity, such as non-verbal pain behaviors, pain-related disability, or interpretations about the meaning of the pain”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Empirical studies of validation
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“First, observers were able to reliably code both validating behaviors and invalidating behaviors.”
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“Interestingly, participants exposed to validation, as opposed to invalidation, did not report differences in post-interview pain.”
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“According to the biosocial model, if patients receive validation after sharing pain-related thoughts and feelings, they will feel understood and accepted, will experience a reductions in emotional arousal and negative affect, and may experience a reduction in pain (see Figure 1, Panel B).”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Models of validation
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“According to the biosocial model[12; 13], validation has a soothing effect, reduces negative affect, and “takes the steam” out of interactions with high emotional arousal.[6]”
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“Furthermore, validation from a romantic partner may enhance relationship intimacy, which is related to several positive benefits (e.g. increased positive affect, improved psychological well-being) [10; 11].”
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“In the developing the construct of validation, Linehan describes six levels of validating behaviors that individuals (e.g. partners, friends, health professionals) may engage in (see Table 1).”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > The concept of validation
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“This model views validation as a type of social reinforcement and predicts that validation increases the likelihood of whatever behavior it follows.”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Models of validation
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“Both of these studies also used research assistants to deliver validation/invalidation, which contributes to high internal validity but may compromise external validity.”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Empirical studies of validation
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“Some observational studies have coded for validation and invalidation, but currently, no studies have compared observational reports of validation with self-reported feelings of validation.”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Future directions
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“Lastly, the first study[14] used healthy participants while the second study[21] used nurses who reported back pain in past six months.”
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“No pain rating or pain tolerance differences were found between conditions.”
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“The model (see Figure 1, Panel C) hypothesizes that when partners engage in validating behaviors after patients disclose pain-related thoughts and feelings, patients will report increased intimacy, positive affect, and relationship satisfaction; positive affective responses that in turn can lead to lower levels of reported pain.”
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“Self-reported feelings of validation are a key construct in the interpersonal process model of intimacy”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Future directions
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“This model hypothesizes that intimacy is a result of interactions where one person (the speaker) shares personally relevant information and another person (the listener) responds in a way that causes the speaker to feel validated, understood and cared for, which is referred to as “perceived partner responsiveness.”[10]”
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“Participants who were assigned to the validation condition reported feeling less frustrated and less angry as compared to participants who received invalidation, who reported an increase in feelings of frustration and anger.”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Empirical studies of validation
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“Results showed that over the course of the experiment, participants in the validation condition maintained their positive affect, while patients in the invalidation condition reported a decline in positive affect.”
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“These two experimental studies found changes in affect consistent with the hypotheses made by the biosocial model, while neither found changes in pain intensity over the course of the experiment.”
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“Participants in the validation condition also reported a significant decrease in worry while participants in the invalidation group increased in worry.”
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“Reports of pain intensity may be considered a form of pain behavior, and the lack of change in this pain behavior does not fit with either the biosocial model or the operant conditioning model.”
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“What exactly is being reinforced by validating responses (e.g. emotional disclosure, verbal reports of pain) has not been well-studied”
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“These models each make predictions about the influence of validation; however, it is likely that the mechanism by which validation influences patients is more nuanced than any single model captures.”
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“Including a neutral comparison condition, while desirable, may be very difficult since most interactions involve providing the patient with some indication that they are being understood or not.”
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- Rests on an assumption: In most interactions, patients receive some signal about whether they are understood.
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“This model focuses on the speaker’s perception of the partner’s response in addition to the actual response of the listener.”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Models of validation
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“Third, in couples where the partner provided higher levels of validation, patients were much more likely to engage in disclosure and much less likely to report a sense of support entitlement.”
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“The interpersonal process model of intimacy[16; 17] views intimacy as the product of a transactional process.”
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“To date, validation has only been compared to invalidation and has only been delivered by a research assistant.”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Future directions
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People with ongoing pain probably discuss it with close others, and many of those others likely respond with attention or help.
“Patients having persistent pain are likely to talk about their pain with close others, and many of these people are likely to respond with attention or assistance.”
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In most interactions, patients receive some signal about whether they are understood.
“most interactions involve providing the patient with some indication that they are being understood or not.”
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§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Empirical studies of validation
“neither study measured aspects of the pain experience beyond pain intensity, such as non-verbal pain behaviors, pain-related disability, or interpretations about the meaning of the pain”
§ Validating pain communication: Current state of the science > Empirical studies of validation
“No pain rating or pain tolerance differences were found between conditions.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Edmond, S. N., & Keefe, F. J.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Venue
- Pain
- Published
- 2015-02
- Volume
- 156
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 215-219
- ISSN
- 0304-3959 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4477266
- OpenAlex
- W1967177702
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 19
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 6
- FWCI
- 18.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Pain (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Aging (AG041655, R01AG041655)
- National Cancer Institute (CA131148, CA173307, R21CA173307, R01CA131148)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (R01NR013910, NR013910)
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (UM1AR062800)
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (UH2AT007788, R01AT007572, UH2 AT00788, AT007572)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine › Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Keywords
- pain communication, validation, pain assessment, patient-provider communication
- MeSH terms
- Communication, Emotions, Humans, Models, Theoretical, Pain, Pain Measurement
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