A validation and generality study of the Committed Action Questionnaire in a Swedish sample with chronic pain.
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Summary, in English
Purpose Psychological flexibility is the theoretical model that
underpins Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). There is
a growing body of evidence indicating that ACT is an effective
treatment for chronic pain but one component of the model,
committed action, has not been sufficiently researched. The
purpose of this study is to validate Swedish-language versions
of the full length Committed Action Questionnaire (CAQ;
CAQ-18) and the shortened CAQ (CAQ-8), to examine the
generality of previous results related to committed action and
to further demonstrate the relevance of this construct to the
functioning of patients with chronic pain.
Method The study includes preliminary analyses of the reliability
and validity of the CAQ. Participants were 462 consecutive
referrals to the Pain Rehabilitation Unit at Skåne
University Hospital.
Results The Swedish-language versions of the CAQ (CAQ-
18 and CAQ-8) demonstrated high levels of internal consistency
and satisfactory relationships with various indices of
patient functioning and theoretically related concepts.
Confirmatory factor analyses showed that the Swedish versions
of the CAQ yielded similar two-factor models as found in the original validation studies. Hierarchical regression analyses
identified the measures as significant contributors to explained
variance in patient functioning.
Conclusion The development, translation and further validation
of the CAQ is an important step forward in evaluating the
utility of the psychological flexibility model to the treatment
of chronic pain. The CAQ can both assist researchers interested
in mediators of chronic pain treatment and further enable
research on change processes within the psychological flexibility
model.
underpins Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT). There is
a growing body of evidence indicating that ACT is an effective
treatment for chronic pain but one component of the model,
committed action, has not been sufficiently researched. The
purpose of this study is to validate Swedish-language versions
of the full length Committed Action Questionnaire (CAQ;
CAQ-18) and the shortened CAQ (CAQ-8), to examine the
generality of previous results related to committed action and
to further demonstrate the relevance of this construct to the
functioning of patients with chronic pain.
Method The study includes preliminary analyses of the reliability
and validity of the CAQ. Participants were 462 consecutive
referrals to the Pain Rehabilitation Unit at Skåne
University Hospital.
Results The Swedish-language versions of the CAQ (CAQ-
18 and CAQ-8) demonstrated high levels of internal consistency
and satisfactory relationships with various indices of
patient functioning and theoretically related concepts.
Confirmatory factor analyses showed that the Swedish versions
of the CAQ yielded similar two-factor models as found in the original validation studies. Hierarchical regression analyses
identified the measures as significant contributors to explained
variance in patient functioning.
Conclusion The development, translation and further validation
of the CAQ is an important step forward in evaluating the
utility of the psychological flexibility model to the treatment
of chronic pain. The CAQ can both assist researchers interested
in mediators of chronic pain treatment and further enable
research on change processes within the psychological flexibility
model.
Department/s
Publishing year
2016-02-04
Language
English
Publication/Series
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Topic
- Psychology
Keywords
- Chronic pain
- Psychological flexibility
- Psychometric properties
- Assessment
- Committed action questionnaire
Status
Published
Research group
- Rehabilitation medicine
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1070-5503