@misc{oai:kawasakigakuen.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000369,
 author = {Mitsumasa HIDA and Masakazu IMAOKA and Misa NAKAMURA and Ryota IMAI and Fumie TAZAKI and Hidetoshi NAKAO and Masatoshi TAKEDA},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {Objective: Catastrophic thinking in patients with chronic pain (CP) causes inactivity and depression. In this survey, we intended to clarify the cutoff value of the subscales (rumination, magnification, and helplessness) of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) with the PCS scores of community-dwelling older adult women with chronic pain. 
Methods: The subjects were 121 women with CP among local residents who received a medical check conducted in Kaizuka City, Osaka Fu. The survey items included demographic data, pain-related surveys, physical and psychologic functions, and health-related indicators. 
Results: The subjective health was found to be significantly associated with the presence of catastrophic thinking (p < 0.05). Additionally, rumination and magnification, the subscales of the PCS, had moderate sensitivity and specificity. Furthermore, the cutoff value was clarified to be 7.5 for the rumination score and 3.5 for the magnification score. 
Conclusion: In this study, we identified individuals of the elderly with chronic pain for early care., ORIGINAL ARTICLE},
 title = {Catastrophic thinking and worsening subjective health of community-dwelling older adult women with chronic pain},
 year = {2022}
}