Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: Why might someone distract a person in pain?, Context: Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in most developed countries. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, and can interfere with a person's quality of life and general functioning. Psychological factors such as social support, hypnotic suggestion, excitement, or distraction can significantly affect pain's intensity or unpleasantness. In some arguments put forth in physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia debates, pain has been used as an argument to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives.
Output:
affect pain's intensity or unpleasantness