Medicate or Meditate? Greater Pain Acceptance is Relatedto Lower Pain Medication Use in Persons With Chronic Pain and Spinal Cord Injury

摘要

ObjectivesThere is little information about whether use of pain self-management skills that are common targets of psychosocial interventions for pain are associated with reduced reliance on pain medications. The aim of this study was to test whether higher chronic pain acceptance, which is a readily-modified pain self-management approach, is related to lower use of pain medications (all types), opioid medications, and gabapentinoids in a sample with chronic pain and spinal cord injury (SCI).