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Kevin E. Vowles
Researcher at Queen's University Belfast
Publications - 141
Citations - 8738
Kevin E. Vowles is an academic researcher from Queen's University Belfast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chronic pain & Acceptance and commitment therapy. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 132 publications receiving 7638 citations. Previous affiliations of Kevin E. Vowles include University of Virginia Health System & National Health Service.
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Association between physical pain and alcohol treatment outcomes: The mediating role of negative affect.
Katie Witkiewitz,Elizabeth McCallion,Kevin E. Vowles,Megan Kirouac,Tessa Frohe,Stephen A. Maisto,Ray Hodgson,Nick Heather +7 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest pain and negative affect are associated among individuals in AUD treatment and that negative affect mediated pain may be a risk factor for alcohol relapse.
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Further development of an instrument to assess psychological flexibility in people with chronic pain
TL;DR: The present study was intended to refine and validate a measure of psychological flexibility, titled the Brief Pain Response Inventory (BPRI), and determine its relation with key indices of patient functioning, and provide additional support for the relevance of Psychological flexibility to the problem of chronic pain.
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Living Well with Pain: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of the Valued Living Scale
TL;DR: The Valued Living Scale can be used by clinicians to monitor and track changes in patient's perceptions about their goals with treatment and researchers can use the VLS to test theoretical models of the roles that patient perceptions about goal importance, confidence, and success play in chronic pain treatment outcome.
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Psychological flexibility in coping with chronic pain: further examination of the brief pain coping inventory-2.
TL;DR: The results of the present study lend support to the adoption of psychological flexibility as a framework in future studies of coping with chronic pain.
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Are reductions in pain intensity and pain-related distress necessary? An analysis of within-treatment change trajectories in relation to improved functioning following interdisciplinary acceptance and commitment therapy for adults with chronic pain.
TL;DR: Examination of aspects of change in pain and distress over the course of an interdisciplinary program of acceptance and commitment therapy in relation to functioning at treatment’s conclusion and a 3-month follow-up suggests that significant improvements in functioning may not require decreases in pain intensity and pain-related distress during treatment for chronic pain.