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- Title
Parental reinforcement of recurrent pain: the moderating impact of child depression and anxiety on functional disability.
- Authors
Peterson, Catherine Cant; Palermo, Tonya Mizell
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To examine whether children's distress moderates the relationship between parental responses to children's pain behaviors and functional disability.<bold>Methods: </bold>Participants were 215 children (ages 8 to 16 years) diagnosed with either headaches, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, or sickle cell disease. Children and parents completed questionnaires assessing sociodemographics, pain, depression, anxiety, parental solicitous responses to pain behaviors, and functional disability.<bold>Results: </bold>Hierarchical linear regressions computed for parental responses to children's pain significantly predicted child functional disability, controlling for children's pain intensity. Significant interactions between parental solicitous behaviors and child depressive symptoms (beta =.74, p <.01) and between solicitous behaviors and child anxiety symptoms (beta =.91, p <.01) indicated that for children with more psychological distress, parental solicitous behaviors were associated with greater child functional disability.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Child psychological distress may exacerbate the impact of parental solicitous responses to pain on functioning, suggesting the potential role of family intervention to enhance optimal functioning in children with recurrent pain.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; CHILD psychology; PAIN in children; PAIN management; PARENT-child relationships; CHILDREN with disabilities; PARENT participation in child psychotherapy
- Publication
Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 5, p331
- ISSN
0146-8693
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/jpepsy/jsh037