Pain catastrophizing and its associated factors among puerperal women with vaginal birth : a cross-sectional study
Yuqiong Yang, Hongying Zuo, Man wu, Biru Luo, Ju Yang · 2026
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Yuqiong Yang and colleagues published a 2026 cross-sectional study of pain catastrophizing, the tendency to magnify pain and feel helpless against it, in women giving birth vaginally. Participants were 282 women at a hospital in Sichuan Province, China, assessed during the latent phase of labour and again in the second stage. Questionnaires measured catastrophizing, pain intensity, social support, mood, and confidence in coping with pain.
About twenty-nine percent of women met the catastrophizing threshold at each stage. Risk rose with longer gestation, stronger pain, and depressive symptoms. Confidence in coping protected against it, and women accompanied by someone other than their husband were more likely to catastrophize than those with a husband present. Cross-lagged analysis probed whether pain drives catastrophizing or the reverse. Screening for this mindset during labour, the authors imply, could identify women who need extra support before pain spirals.
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| CREATOR | Yuqiong Yang, Hongying Zuo, Man wu, Biru Luo, Ju Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37098 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |