Postural awareness and its relation to pain: validation of an innovative instrument measuring awareness of body posture in patients with chronic pain

Table 5 Pearson’s correlations of the Postural Awareness Scale (PAS) with clinical measures of pain and mood for the total sample and for the subgroup of patients with spinal or shoulder pain. Asterisks indicate significant correlations

	Pain Intensity	Pain Perception Scale		Pain Duration	Pain Disability Index	Beck Depression Inventory	Perceived Stress Scale
		Affective pain	Sensory pain
Total sample
PAS total	−0.14^*	−0.08	−0.02	0.06	−0.12^*	−0.23^*	−0.29^*
Ease/Familiarity with Postural Awareness	−0.14^*	− 0.05	0.01	0.06	−0.13^*	− 0.14^*	− 0.24^*
Need for Attention Regulation with Postural Awareness	− 0.09^*	− 0.08	− 0.05	0.04	− 0.07	−0.23^*	− 0.23^*
Spinal/shoulder pain
PAS total	−0.16^*	−0.04	− 0.02	0.04	− 0.21^*	−0.12	− 0.23^*
Ease/Familiarity with Postural Awareness	−0.19^*	− 0.07	0.06	− 0.03	−0.22^*	− 0.07	−0.19^*
Need for Attention Regulation with Postural Awareness	−0.08	−0.00	0.01	0.01	−0.13	−0.13	− 0.20^*

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