The Comfort Ability Pain Management Workshop: A Preliminary, Nonrandomized Investigation of a Brief, Cognitive, Biobehavioral, and Parent Training Intervention for Pediatric Chronic Pain

ConclusionsThis brief intervention is both feasible and acceptable. Although small effect sizes were found for all outcome measures, parents and adolescents made significant gains postintervention. In the absence of a direct comparison group, we cannot determine if these improvements are exclusively attributable to the intervention. Future research will be needed to understand the degree to which this brief intervention may effectively enhance the attainment of evidence-based psychoeducation and cognitive behavioral skills that are known to foster adaptive parent and adolescent responses to chronic pain.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research