* Graduate student at time of publication; ** Undergraduate student at time of publication; ***Postdoc at time of publication
Kinesiophobia predicts pain intensity and interference at 3, 6, and 12 months following discharge from Level-1 trauma center.
Koneru, S. **, Sherali, S. **, Raleigh, K. **, Taylor, P., Owens, H. A. **, Sturgeon, J. A., Reynolds, M., Roden-Foreman, K., Foreman, M. L., Warren, A. M., & Trost, Z. (2025, April). Abstract submitted to the 2025 United States Association for the Study of Pain Annual Scientific Meeting, Chicago, IL.
The lived experience of driving with pain.
Shah, M. **, Hiller, S. **, Gutierrez, J. **, Koneru, S. **, Owens, H. A. **, Raleigh, K. **, Taylor, P., Attridge, N., Moore, D., Stavrinos, D., & Trost, Z. (2025, April). Abstract submitted to the 2025 United States Association for the Study of Pain Annual Scientific Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Validating the social vigilance questionnaire in a multiethnic sample of individuals with chronic lower back pain.
Tillery, E. **, Owens, H. A. **, Raleigh, K. **, Taylor, P., Guck, A., Sturgeon, J. A., & Trost, Z. (2025, April). Abstract submitted to the 2025 United States Association for the Study of Pain Annual Scientific Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Validating the injustice experience questionnaire following romantic dissolution.
Hiller, S. **, Owens, H. A., ** Taylor, P., Quirk, K. M., & Trost, Z. (2025, March). Abstract submitted to the 2025 Southwestern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Little Rock, AR.
Associations between pain-related injustice and objective functional measures among individuals with chronic low back pain.
Vorensky, M. Trost, Z., Sturgeon, J., Hirsh, A., Squires, A., Jones, S., Sajnani, N., & Rao, S. (2025, February). Abstract submitted to the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting, Houston, TX.
* Graduate student at time of publication; ** Undergraduate student at time of publication; ***Postdoc at time of publication
Assessing differences in male and female attitudes Toward HIV-positive black patients.
Owens, H.A. **, Shojaei, T. **, Sainz-Higgins, A. *, & Trost, Z. (2024, November). Poster presented at the 2024 Texas Psychological Association Annual Convention Poster Competition, Fort Worth, TX.
Eyes on the road: Validating the Experience of Cognitive Intrusion of Pain When Driving Scale.
Hiller, S. **, Gutierrez, J. **, Attridge, N., Moore, D., Stavrinos, D., Sturgeon, D., & Trost, Z. (2024, November). Poster presented at the 2024 Texas Psychological Association Conference, Fort Worth, Texas.
🏆Selected in Third place in student presentations
The virtual divide: Sociodemographic representation in U.S. adult and pediatric virtual reality pain research.
Shah, M.**, Shojaei, T. **, Zuch, B. **, Rosenbloom, B. N., Hess, C., Sainz, A.*, Stinson, J., & Trost, Z. (2024, August). Poster presented at Texas A&M University Student Research Week (SRW), College Station, TX.
Evaluating inequities in North American VR interventions for adult and pediatric pain: A comprehensive analysis.
Shojaei, T. **, Owens, H.A. **, Shah, M. **, Zuch, B. **, Hess, C., Rosenbloom, B. N., Sainz, A.*, Stinson, J., & Trost, Z. (2024, November). Abstract submitted to the 2024 Texas Psychological Association Conference, Fort Worth, TX.
“Validating the experience of cognitive intrusion of pain when driving scale (ECIP-D): A confirmatory factor analysis study”.
Gutierrez, J. **, Hiller, S. **, Attridge, N., Moore, D., Stavrinos, D., Sturgeon, D., Trost, Z. (2025, April). Abstract submitted to the 14th Congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC – Pain in Europe XIV (EFIC 2025), Lyon, France.
Pain Perceptions and Biases Towards Individuals With HIV.
Owens, H.A. **, Shojaei, T., Merlin, J. S., Sainz-Higgins, A.*, & Trost, Z. (2024, June). Abstract submitted to the 14th Congress of the European Pain Federation, Lyon, France.
The looking glass avatar: Representing chronic pain through social virtual reality avatar movement.
Gualano, R.*, Leonard, C., Zhang, Y., Trost, Z., Asenkot, S., & Stevenson Won., A (2024, July). Abstract submitted to ASSETS: 26th Annual Conferences on Computers and Accessibility, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Identity, advocacy, or accommodation? Self-representation of chronic pain conditions through social VR avatars.
Gualano, R.*, Leonard, C., Zhang, Y., Trost, Z., Asenkot, S., & Stevenson Won., A (2024, October). Poster presented at XR Access Symposium, New York, NY.
🏆Selected as best poster at XR Access Symposium
Characterizing sociodemographic representation in U.S. virtual reality pediatric pain studies.
Shojaei, T.**, Zuch, B.**, Hess, C.***, Rosenbloom, B.N., Shah, M.**, Sainz, A.*, Stinson, J., & Trost, Z. (2024, August). Abstract submitted to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) 20th World Congress on Pain. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Unveiling the digital divide: Sociodemographic analysis of US virtual reality interventions for pain.
Zuch, B.**, Shojaei, T.**, Rosenbloom, B.N., Hess, C.***, Shah, M.**, Sainz, A.*, Stinson, J., & Trost, Z. (2024, August). Abstract submitted to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) 20th World Congress on Pain. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dynamics of cognitive and affective adaptation to chronic low back pain: A daily diary study.
Sturgeon, J.A., Arewasikporn, A., & Trost, Z. (2024, February). Poster presented at the Annual Rehabilitation Psychology Conference, Austin, TX.
Immersive virtual walking reduces catastrophizing associated with neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury.
Rathor, R.***, Cowan, R., Gustin, S., Shum, C., Richardson, E., Richards, S., Anam, M., & Trost Z. (2024, October). Abstract submitted to the 100th Annual American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
* Graduate student at time of publication; ** Undergraduate student at time of publication; ***Postdoc at time of publication
Pain-related injustice appraisals, sickle cell stigma, and racialized discrimination in youth with sickle cell disease: a preliminary investigation.
Miller, M., Kissi, A., Rumble, D., Hirsh, A., Vervoort, T., Crosby, L., Madan-Swain, A., Lebensburger, J., & Trost, Z. (in press). Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.
Scratching the surface: The complex interface of chronic pain and mental health treatment needs in the United States.
Sturgeon, J., Ziadni, M., Trost, Z., Hasslett, A. (2024). PAIN.
Broadening the scope of resilience in chronic pain: Methods, social context, and development.
Sturgeon, J., Kaplan, C., Arewasikporn, A., Slepian, M., Zubieta, C., Hassett, A., & Trost, Z. (2024). Current Rheumatology Reports, 26, 112-123. PMID: 38270842
The impact of perceived injustice on pain and psychological outcomes following traumatic injury: A longitudinal analysis.
Trost, A., Sturgeon, J.A., Agtarap, S., McMinn, K., McShan, E., Boals, A., Arewasikporn, A., Foreman, M., & Warren, A. (2024).. PAIN, 165, 1583-1591. PMID: 38258952.
Racial differences in movement-evoked pain appraisals and pain behaviors among adults with chronic low back pain.
Vorensky M.*, Kissi, A.* (shared first authorship), Sturgeon, S., Vervoort, T., & Trost, Z., (2024). Journal of Pain, 25, 104438. PMID: 38065466
Initial validation of the 12-item Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia in a retrospective sample of adults with chronic headache.
Sturgeon, J. A., Pierce, J., & Trost, Z., (2024). Pain Medicine,25, 187-183. PMID: 37930882
Cortical mechanisms underlying immersive interactive virtual walking treatment for amelioration of neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: Findings from a preliminary investigation of thalamic inhibitory function.
Gustin, S., Bolding, M., Willoughby, W., Anam, M., Seward, J., Shum, C., Rumble, D., Sturgeon, J.A., Mark, V., Chen, Y., Mitchell, L., Cowan, R., Perera, R., Richardson, E., Richards, S., & Trost, Z. (2023). Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12, 5743. PMID: 37685810
Race and belief in a just world: Implications for pain acceptance among individuals with chronic low back pain.
Crouch, T., Sturgeon, J., Guck, A., Higawara, N., Smith, W., & Trost, Z. (2023). Journal of Pain, 16, S1526-5900. PMID: 37454884 🏆 Early Career Author Award at 2024 USASP Annual Meeting
Child appraisals of injustice in the context of acute & chronic pain: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Daenen, F.**, Bert, F., *, McParland, J., Trost, Z., Schillemans, A., Tanghe, A., & Vervoort, T. (2023, in press). European Journal of Pain.
Youth baseline and state pain-related injustice appraisals are associated with emotional responses of anger and sadness: An experimental study.
Daenen, F.**, Wauters, A., Trost, Z. Van Ryckehem, D., & Vervoort, T. (2023). Frontiers Pain Research, 21, 1080461. PMID: 37151841
The negative effect of social discrimination on pain tolerance and the moderating role of pain catastrophizing.
Richardson, E., Trost, Z., Payne, M., & Wiggins, A. (2023). Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 30, 169-81. PMID: 35244822
Injustice, quality of life, and psychiatric symptoms in people with migraine.
Parker, A.*, Sebrow, L., Foley, F., Hirky, E.L., Robbins, M., Trost., Z., & Seng, E., (2023).Rehabilitation Psychology, 68, 77-90. PMID: 36633992
Racism as a source of pain.
Shubiner, H., Jackson, B., Molina, K.M., Sturgeon, J.A., Sealy-Jefferson, S., Lumley, M.A., Jolly, J., & Trost., Z. (2023). Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38, 1729-1734. PMID: 36737536
Editorial: Novel applications of virtual and mixed reality in pain research and treatment.
Harvie, D. S., Smith, R., Martin, D., Hirsh, A. T., & Trost, Z. (2022). Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 3.
Staying active after rehab: Physical activity perspectives with a spinal cord injury beyond functional gains.
Baehr, L.*, Kaimal, G., Hiremath, S., Trost, Z., Finley, M. (2022). PLoS One, 17(3):e0265807. PMID: 35320294
The impact of maternal child- and self-oriented pain-related injustice appraisals upon maternal attention to child pain, attention to anger, and pain-attending behavior
Baert, F.*, Van Ryckeghem, D., Sanchez-Lopez, A., Miller, M.*, Hirsh, A., Trost, Z., & Vervoort, T. (2022). British Journal of Pain, 16, 303-316. PMID: 35646345
The analgesic effect of EEG neurofeedback for people with chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Hesam-Sariati, N.***, Chang, W., Wewege, M.A., McAuley, J., Booth, A., Trost, Z., Lin., C., Newton-John, T., and Gustin, S. (2022). European Journal of Neurology, 29, 921-36. PMID: 34813662
Immersive interactive virtual walking reduces neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury: Findings from a preliminary investigation of feasibility and clinical efficacy.
Trost, Z., Anam, M.*, Seward, J.*, Shum, C., Rumble, D.***, Sturgeon, J., Mark, V., Chen, Y., Mitchell, L., Cowan, R., Perera, R., Richardson, E., Richards, S., & Gustin, S. (2022). PAIN, 163, 350-361. PMID: 34407034
Mechanisms of injustice: What we (don’t) know about racialized disparities in pain.
Mathur, V.A., Trost, Z., Enzewa, M.O., Sturgeon, J.A., & Hood, A. (2022). PAIN, 16, 999-1005. PMID: 34724680
Injustice through a cultural lens: A pilot qualitative exploration of pain-related injustice appraisals among Arab-Americans with chronic low back pain.
Alnojeidi, A. H.*, Capo-Lugo, C., Sturgeon, J.A., & Trost, Z. (2022). Journal of Pain, 23, 739-753. PMID: 34718152
Anger as a mechanism for injustice in pediatric pain.
M.M. Miller*, Williams, A., Scott, E., Trost, Z., & Hirsh, A. (2022). Journal of Pain, 23, 223-235. PMID: 34403788