Background
The project has investigated prevalence of chronic pain in adults with personality disorders and mapped personality functioning in patients with chronic pain. The role of negative affect in the relationship between personality disorders and pain was further explored. The screening form LPFS-BF was validated in a sample of patients with chronic pain to allow further investigation of the associations between personality functioning and chronic primary pain as well as factors such as pain intensity, health-related quality of life,and pain-related disability. We have finally assessed the clinical utility of screening for personality dysfunction within an interdisciplinary pain clinic.
Methods
The project is based on two different quality registries: The quality registry of the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders and The Oslo University Hospital Pain Registry.
Financial sources
The PhD project for Fillip F. Eikeseth has been financed by the Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Oslo University Hospital.
Medlemmer
- Prosjektleder: Gunnvald Kvarstein, UiT og OUS
- Fillip Ferreira Eikeseth, PhD student, UiO
- Audun Stubhaug, UIO og OUS
- Elfrida Hartveit Kvarstein, UiO og OUS
Assosierte medlemmer
- Geir Pedersen, OUS
- Benjamin Hummelen, OUS
- Stephan Sütterlin, Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, Germany
Selected publications
- Fillip Ferreira Eikeseth 1, Geir Pedersen 2, Benjamin Hummelen 2, Stefan Sütterlin 3, Audun Stubhaug 4, Elfrida Hartveit Kvarstein 5, Gunnvald Kvarstein. Pain prevalence rates and the mediating role of negative affect in adults referred to personality disorder treatment: A cross-sectional study. J Pain. 2025 Jan:26:104724. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.104724. Epub 2024 Oct 30. PMID: 39481671 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.104724 2.
- Eikeseth, F.F., Pedersen, G., Stubhaug, A., Sütterlin, S., Kvarstein, G. (Under review). Psychometric evaluation of the Level of Personality Functioning Scale – Brief Form 2.0 in adults with chronic pain. Submitted.