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How likeable (/otherwise) a patient is correlates w/ an observer's assessment of pain

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Dolphin

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Youre putting it on: pain perception
A new study investigates how the observers perception of a patients character influences their assessment of the patients pain.

By Adrienne Burke
8 December 2011
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http://blog.f1000.com/2011/12/08/youre-putting-it-on-pain-perception/

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Pain is very commonly not measured in ME/CFS research specifically by those of the CBT School of Thought (Wessely/White/Chalder/Sharpe School of Thought).

I thought it was interesting that how much an observer likes/dislikes an individual can alter their perception of how bad the pain is.

Could also affect ME/CFS patients' interactions with doctors who often don't seem to like such patients.

Another example of the problems with subjective outcome measures.
 
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