Child catastrophizing about parent chronic pain: A potential child vulnerability factor.

ABSTRACT: Objective Robust evidence suggests children's catastrophizing about their own pain is a risk factor for poor child pain-related outcomes. In children of parents with chronic pain, child catastrophizing about their parents' pain might be a unique predictor of child pain-related outcomes given their increased exposure to parental chronic pain and disability. The objective of this study was to examine associations between child and parent catastrophizing about their own and each other's pain and child and parent pain-related outcomes. Methods Seventy-two parents with chronic pain and their children (ages 8-15) completed questionnaires assessing their trait catastrophizing about their own and each other's pain, their own pain, and the child's internalizing symptoms. Children completed the cold

SUBMITTER: Higgins KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384016 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature