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- Title
Parents’ Interpersonal Distance and Touch Behavior and Child Pain and Distress during Painful Pediatric Oncology Procedures.
- Authors
Peterson, Amy; Cline, Rebecca; Foster, Tanina; Penner, Louis; Parrott, Roxanne; Keller, Christine; Naughton, Michael; Taub, Jeffrey; Ruckdeschel, John; Albrecht, Terrance
- Abstract
Children with cancer and their parents report that treatment-related procedures are more traumatic and painful than cancer itself. Competing hypotheses have emerged regarding relations between parents’ social support and child pain and distress. Little is known about caregivers’ use of nonverbal immediacy behaviors that may function as social support messages. This study describes caregivers’ interpersonal distance and touch behaviors during painful pediatric oncology procedures and examines relations between those behaviors and children’s pain and distress. Caregivers’ total touch time and instrumental (task-oriented) touch time, but not supportive touch time, during the actual procedure co-varied with children’s procedural pain and distress.
- Subjects
TOUCH in children; CANCER treatment; NONVERBAL immediacy; SOCIAL contact; ONCOLOGY; JUVENILE diseases; TUMORS in children; CAREGIVERS
- Publication
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 2, p79
- ISSN
0191-5886
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10919-007-0023-9