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Background:

  • Dispositional traits can either protect individuals or increase vulnerability to chronic pain.
  • Understanding the link between personality traits and pain outcomes is crucial for effective pain management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between affect balance style and multi-domain trait groups with pain and psychosocial measures in individuals with chronic knee pain.
  • To assess changes in dispositional traits over a two-year period in this population.

Main Methods:

  • Prospective analysis of 168 community-dwelling individuals (aged 45-85) with chronic knee pain or at risk for knee osteoarthritis.
  • Assessment of dispositional traits (affect balance style, multi-domain trait groups), psychosocial measures, clinical pain, functional pain, and experimental pain at baseline and two years.

Main Results:

  • At baseline, dispositional traits were associated with psychosocial measures, clinical pain, and functional status.
  • At two years, multi-domain trait groups remained associated with clinical pain measures.
  • Individuals with initially vulnerable traits showed greater trait variability over time compared to those with protective traits.

Conclusions:

  • Dispositional traits are predisposing factors for chronic pain experiences but are not predetermined.
  • A notable shift (30-50%) in dispositional traits occurred over two years, indicating their modifiability.
  • These findings suggest that interventions targeting dispositional traits could potentially alter pain trajectories.