Profiling Modifiable Psychosocial Factors among Children with Chronic Pain: A Person-Centered Methodology

Pediatric chronic pain is associated with risk of impact across social, emotional, and behavioral domains at child and family levels.30,52,67 Extant literature highlights psychosocial factors that can foster resilience and others that underlie vulnerability for poor pain coping and disability. Resilience factors, such as pain acceptance and psychosocial adjustment, have been found to promote the use of adaptive pain coping strategies within this population.14 Greater child and parent pain catastrophizing, clinically significant internalizing symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression), and maladaptive parent responses (e.g., over attending to pain complaints) are associated with greater pain, disability, and poorer response to treatment for children with chronic pain.
Source: The Journal of Pain - Category: Materials Science Authors: Tags: Original Reports Source Type: research