Advances in pain catastrophizing in cancer patients
This article mainly reviews the connotation,commonly used assessment tools,current status,influencing factors and in-tervention measures of pain catastrophizing in cancer patients.It proposes that pain catastrophizing is a core psychological determi-nant of pain behavior,and research on pain catastrophizing is of great significance to pain management of cancer patients.It is sug-gested that pain catastrophizing in patients with different types of cancer should be studied,specific scale for measuring pain cata-strophizing in cancer patients needs to be developed,and artificial intelligence-based intervention programs should be constructed,in an effort to improve the quality of pain management in cancer patients.