Dear all,
I have a basic enquiry that I just wanted to check is correctly
understood.
For my masters thesis I am looking at coping strategies (whether
adaptive or maldaptive) in people with chronic pain with special
interest in chronic back pain and a little confused over figuring out
my IV's. My project title is assessment of adaptive and maladaptive
coping strategies and their influence upon functional capacity in the
management of chronic back pain. My hypotheses are
1) coping behavioural strategies will predict changes in sensorial,
emotional and functional pain parameters.
2) Individual differences in coping strategies will be associated with
differences in pain pathology, across degree (ie pain severity) and in
duration of pain.
3) Differences in behavioural coping patterns will occur between
chronic back pain and non back pain specific population ie alternative
forms of pain.
I am using a pain questionnaire and my design is a cross sectional
survey collecting data at one time point only.
I think My DVs are pain level, disability, emotional well being
(stress,anxietydepression) and type of coping (active vs passive).
Struggling with the IV as this is a survey not an experiment with no
manipulation jus looking at relationships but non-causal just
associations. Would my IV be the 2 different type of pain groups? Ie
non back pain and back pain, the other alternative pain group in my
study just acts as a control group to see if these people cope
differently to those with back pain. As everyone completes the same
whole questionnaire, am I dealing with independent groups or repeated
measures? I would say it is between subjects but my supervisor said it
could be the opposite.
It's just a basic simple enquiry please
Please help anybody I would be grateful.
Thankyou for Reading
Kind regards
Sarah
(MSc Researcher)
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