Parenting in the context of chronic pain: a controlled study of parents with chronic pain.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to describe what adults with chronic pain experience in their role as parents, utilizing quantitative and qualitative methods. The first aim was to compare parents with chronic pain to parents without chronic pain on perceptions of their adolescent's pain, parental response to pain, and catastrophizing beliefs about pain. The study also examined predictors of parental protective behaviors, and examined whether these associations differed by study group.

Materials and methods

Parents with chronic pain (n=58) and parents without chronic pain (n=72) participated, and completed questionnaire measures of pain characteristics and pain interference, as well as measures of parental catastrophizing and protective pain responses. Parents with chronic pain al

SUBMITTER: Wilson AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4363302 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature