Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization and Its Relationship to the Anxiety-Pain Connection in Youth with Chronic Pain: Implications for Treatment.

ABSTRACT: The bidirectional relationship between anxiety and chronic pain in youth is well-known, but how anxiety contributes to the maintenance of pediatric chronic pain needs to be elucidated. Sensitivity to pain traumatization (SPT), an individual's propensity to develop responses to pain that resemble a traumatic stress response, may contribute to the mutual maintenance of anxiety and pediatric chronic pain. A clinical sample of youth (aged 10-18 years) with chronic pain completed a measure of SPT at baseline and rated their anxiety and pain characteristics for seven consecutive days at baseline and at three-month follow-up. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to model whether SPT moderated the relationship between baseline anxiety and pain intensity, unpleasantness, and interfere

SUBMITTER: Maunder L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9032504 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature