The moderating role of attention control in the relationship between pain catastrophizing and negatively-biased pain memories in youth with chronic pain

Contemporary pain theories have posited pain memories to be key in understanding deleterious pain outcomes and future pain experiences [47,55,77]. Indeed, youth with negatively-biased pain memories (i.e., recalling pain as more intense or fearful than initially reported) are at risk for experiencing more pain, anxiety and distress during subsequent pain experiences [9,45,47,51,53]. Furthermore, negative or distressing pain memories are predictive of fear and avoidance of medical care in adulthood [56] and have been posited to underlie the transition from acute to chronic pain [20,51,66].

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