Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0773250

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0773250

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The role of attention re-training in pain tolerance. Chronic pain is one of the most debilitating and expensive chronic health problems in westernized countries. Chronic pain develops when an individual is injured and is fearful of the pain that they experience. This causes them to become hypervigilant to pain, avoid activity and results in a vicious cycle of increasing disability. This research has two, related aims. First, we aim to test this model to see whether hypervigilance influences response to pain, as predicted. Second, we will develop and test an intervention to reduce hypervigilance to pain in healthy people and those with acute injuries. If the intervention is successful, it will have the potential to prevent the development of chronic pain or reduce its severity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-01-2007

End Date: 30-06-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $212,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Preventive Medicine | Psychology | Health, Clinical And Counselling Psychology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Skeletal system and disorders (incl. arthritis) |

Other Keywords

Health, Clinical And Counselling Psychology | Preventive Medicine | Psychology | Skeletal system and disorders (incl. arthritis)

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