Living Life With My Child's Pain: The Parent Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (PPAQ).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Parents' emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses are highly influential on children's pain and functional outcomes. One important response to pediatric pain is acceptance: the degree to which an individual participates in routine daily activities in the presence of pain and is willing to let pain be a part of their life without efforts to control or avoid it. However, no tool currently exists to assess parents' own acceptance of their child's pain. The aim of this study was to validate the Parent Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (PPAQ).

Materials and methods

The PPAQ was administered to 310 parents of youth with chronic pain in an outpatient pediatric headache program and a day hospital pain rehabilitation program. An exploratory factor analysis revealed 2 fact

SUBMITTER: Smith AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4326631 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature