Mindfulness Found to Improve Pain-Related Stress Appraisals

For patients with anticipated pain and/or actual pain, mindfulness may be an effective coping strategy, according to a new study.

“Chronic pain has been identified as one of the major factors contributing to disability and overall life dissatisfaction. However, not all chronic pain patients develop disability, so I was very interested in what makes these individual differences,” said lead author Samsuk Kim, a graduate student in health psychology at the University of Michigan, in