Impulsivity and Pain Attentional Bias in Veterans with Chronic Pain

61 veterans receiving care for chronic non-malignant pain and 38 control veterans completed computerized tasks probing attentional capture, delay discounting, and symptomatology. The dataset, authored by James M. Bjork and last updated in April 2026, likely contains behavioral and psychological assessment results. It was collected from participants within the Veterans Health Administration system.

Use Cases

• Analyze relationships between pain-related disability and delay discounting behavior based on the described psychological assessments.
• Investigate correlations between mood symptomatology and motoric impulsivity under pain-related distraction based on the stop-signal task results.
• Compare attentional capture by distress-related visual stimuli between chronic pain and control groups as described in the signal detection tasks.

Strengths

• Data includes a control group of 38 veterans without chronic pain for comparison.
• Study design controlled for chronic opioid use history in the primary chronic pain group.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• The dataset is small (656.5 KB), indicating limited scope and sample size.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

James M. Bjork via figshare

Collection Method

Computerized tasks (signal detection, stop-signal, delay-discounting) and symptom questionnaires administered to veteran participants.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 05:34:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely United States (Veterans Health Administration care system).