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Longitudinal Impact Of Parental Catastrophizing On Child Functional Disability In Pediatric Amplified Pain, Bernadette L. Dougherty, Nataliya Zelikovsky, Kimberly S. Miller, Daniel Rodriguez, Sharon Lee Armstrong, David D. Sherry
Longitudinal Impact Of Parental Catastrophizing On Child Functional Disability In Pediatric Amplified Pain, Bernadette L. Dougherty, Nataliya Zelikovsky, Kimberly S. Miller, Daniel Rodriguez, Sharon Lee Armstrong, David D. Sherry
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OBJECTIVE: Children with amplified musculoskeletal pain (AMPS) experience significant functional disability, with impairment in their ability to participate in age-appropriate activities of daily living. Parental factors play an important role in a child's pain symptoms and treatment outcomes, with parental pain catastrophizing and protective behaviors linked to several maladaptive outcomes for children. Aims of the current study were to examine how parental pain catastrophizing, child pain catastrophizing, and parental protective behaviors longitudinally impacted functional disability for children with AMPS.
METHODS: Archival data were examined from parent-child dyads presenting to a tertiary pain clinic for treatment of AMPS. Over …