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Living Life With My Child’s Pain: The Parent Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (PPAQ)

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OBJECTIVE: Parents' emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses are highly influential on children's pain and functional outcomes. One important response to pediatric pain is acceptance: the degree to which an individual participates in routine daily activities in the presence of pain and is willing to let pain be a part of their life without efforts to control or avoid it. However, no tool currently exists to assess parents' own acceptance of their child's pain. The aim of this study was to validate the Parent Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (PPAQ). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The PPAQ was administered to 310 parents of youth with chronic pain in an outpatient pediatric headache program and a day hospital pain rehabilitation program. An exploratory factor analysis revealed 2 factors for the PPAQ: an 11-item Activity Engagement scale and a 4-item Acceptance of Pain-related Thoughts and Feelings scale. RESULTS: The PPAQ total score and subscales demonstrated strong internal consistency. Greater parent pain acceptance was positively associated with child pain acceptance, and was negatively correlated with parent protective behaviors, parent minimizing behaviors, parent and child pain catastrophizing, and child fear of pain. Parent protective behaviors and child pain acceptance both served as mediators of the relationship between parent pain acceptance and child functional disability. CONCLUSIONS: The PPAQ is a valid measure of parent pain acceptance and may provide valuable insights into parent responses to child pain and the ways in which parent acceptance influences child outcomes. Clinical implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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Authors
Smith, A. M., Sieberg, C. B., Odell, S., Randall, E., & Simons, L. E.
Affiliations
Boston Children's Hospital (US)
Corresponding author
  • Smith, Allison M.
  • Sieberg, Christine B.
  • Odell, Shannon
  • Randall, Edin
  • Simons, Laura E.
Venue
The Clinical Journal of Pain
Published
2015-07
Volume
31
Issue
7
Pages
633-641
ISSN
0749-8047 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1998079007
Cited by
31
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4
FWCI
3.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Clinical Journal of Pain (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23HD067202)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
Keywords
pediatric chronic pain, pain catastrophizing, fear of pain, functional disability, questionnaire validation, parent-child relationship
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Child, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Fear, Female, Hospitals, Pediatric, Humans, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States, Catastrophization, Chronic Pain

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