TY - JOUR
T1 - Coping with pain
T2 - A component analysis of Lamaze and cognitive-behavioral procedures
AU - Stone, Christopher I.
AU - Demchik-Stone, Deborah A.
AU - Horan, John J.
PY - 1977
Y1 - 1977
N2 - In this study an attempt was made to sort out the active ingredients of the Lamaze childbirth technique, and a possible improvement in the form of in-vivo emotive imagery was explored. Seventy female subjects were randomly assigned to one of seven treatment conditions in a 3 (levels of visual activity) × 2 (levels of respiratory activity)+ 1 (no treatment) design. Measures of pain threshold, pain endurance, and self-reported discomfort obtained in the cold pressor task were obtained before and after treatment. While no significant differences emerged on the respiratory activity factor, the imagery procedure was shown to be more effective than the visual procedure espoused by Lamaze for enhancing subjects' tolerance of ice-water discomfort. Implications of these findings for future research are discussed.
AB - In this study an attempt was made to sort out the active ingredients of the Lamaze childbirth technique, and a possible improvement in the form of in-vivo emotive imagery was explored. Seventy female subjects were randomly assigned to one of seven treatment conditions in a 3 (levels of visual activity) × 2 (levels of respiratory activity)+ 1 (no treatment) design. Measures of pain threshold, pain endurance, and self-reported discomfort obtained in the cold pressor task were obtained before and after treatment. While no significant differences emerged on the respiratory activity factor, the imagery procedure was shown to be more effective than the visual procedure espoused by Lamaze for enhancing subjects' tolerance of ice-water discomfort. Implications of these findings for future research are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-3999(77)90067-8
DO - 10.1016/0022-3999(77)90067-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 599507
AN - SCOPUS:0017700428
SN - 0022-3999
VL - 21
SP - 451
EP - 456
JO - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
JF - Journal of Psychosomatic Research
IS - 6
ER -