Injustice perceptions about pain: parent-child discordance is associated with worse functional outcomes

Pain
Megan M MillerAdam T Hirsh

Abstract

Pain is experienced within and influenced by social environments. For children with chronic pain, the child-parent relationship and parental beliefs about pain are particularly important and may influence pain outcomes. Pain-related injustice perceptions have recently been identified as an important cognitive-emotional factor for children with pain. The current study aimed to better understand the pain-related injustice perceptions of children with chronic pain and their parents. The sample consisted of 253 pediatric chronic pain patients (mean age = 14.1 years, 74% female) presenting to a tertiary pain clinic. Patients completed measures of pain intensity, pain-related injustice perceptions, stress, functional disability, and quality of life. Parents completed a measure of pain-related injustice perceptions about their child's pain. Child-parent dyads were categorized into 1 of 4 categories based on the degree of concordance or discordance between their scores on the injustice measures. One-way analysis of variances examined differences in pain intensity, stress, functional disability, and quality of life across the 4 dyad categories. Our findings indicated that both the degree (concordant vs discordant) and direction (discord...Continue Reading

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Mar 17, 2021·Pain Medicine : the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine·Megan M MillerZina Trost
May 20, 2021·The Clinical Journal of Pain·Eleanor A J BattisonAmy L Holley
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