Pain-coping scale for children and their parents: a cross-sectional study in children with musculoskeletal pain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In a chronic pain-causing disease such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis, the quality of coping with pain is crucial. Parents have a substantial influence on their children's pain-coping strategies. This study aimed to develop scales for assessing parents' strategies for coping with their children's pain and a shorter improved scale for children usable in clinical practice.

Methods

The number of items in the Finnish version of the pain-coping questionnaire for children was reduced from 39 to 20. A corresponding reduced scale was created for parental use. We recruited consecutive patients from nine hospitals evenly distributed throughout Finland, aged 8-16 years who visited a paediatric rheumatology outpatient clinic and reported musculoskeletal pain during the past

SUBMITTER: Backstrom M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9875488 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature