People often report several symptoms and stress, pain and sleep frequently occur alone or in combination. This study followeds a large sample of adults over the course of one year to observe these three symptoms.
Main publications
Boersma, K., MacDonald, S., & Linton, S. J. (2012). Longitudinal relationships between pain and stress problems in the general population: Predicting trajectories from cognitive behavioral variables. Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research, 17(4), 229-248.
Linton, S. J., & MacDonald, S. (2015). Pain and sleep disorders: Clinical consequences and maintaining factors. In, Lavigne, Sessle & Soja, Pain and Sleep, 417-437.
MacDonald, S., Linton, S. J., & Jansson‐Fröjmark, M. (2010). Cognitive vulnerability in the development of concomitant pain and sleep disturbances. British Journal of Health Psychology, 15(2), 417-434.