Parent chronic pain and mental health symptoms impact responses to children’s pain
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BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a prevalent health condition associated with parenting difficulties. Pain-specific parenting, such as protectiveness and catastrophizing, may contribute to chronic pain in children. Additional work is needed to test predictors of pain-specific parenting. Aim: The current study tested parent mental health symptoms as predictors of protectiveness and catastrophizing about child pain and whether comorbid pain and mental health symptoms exacerbate risk for problematic responses to children's pain. METHODS: = 80) completed self-report questionnaires assessing pain characteristics, mental health symptoms, and pain-specific parenting responses. RESULTS: Results indicated significantly higher rates of depression, anxiety, and somatization in parents with chronic pain. Depression predicted protectiveness and catastrophizing over and above chronic pain status. Chronic pain status moderated the association between increased anxiety and greater catastrophizing about child pain. CONCLUSIONS: Findings highlight the potential impact of mental health symptoms on pain-specific parenting even when accounting for chronic pain status.
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Parents of youth with chronic pain may experience psychosocial difficulties that impact their parenting.
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- Authors
- Fussner, L. M., Schild, C., Lewandowski Holley, A., & Wilson, A. C.
- Affiliations
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (US)
- Pacific University (US)
- School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Institute on Development and Disability, Oregon Health & Science University , Portland, Oregon, USA
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fussner, Lauren M.
- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Pain
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-01-01
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 258-265
- ISSN
- 2474-0527 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6502461
- OpenAlex
- W2896292491
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 1.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Canadian Journal of Pain (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (K23HD064705)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Family Support in Illness
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Keywords
- chronic pain, parenting, protectiveness, pain catastrophizing, parental depression, parental anxiety, somatization, pediatric pain
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