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Experimental Pain Sensitivity and Parental Pain Catastrophizing.
Gourav Banerjee1,2, Joel Brown1,2, Alana McMichael1,2
1Washington University Pain Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Children (Basel, Switzerland)
|January 8, 2025
Summary
Parental pain catastrophizing showed minimal association with adolescent girls' experimental pain sensitivity. This suggests other factors may play a larger role in how young people experience pain.
Area of Science:
- Pain research
- Developmental psychology
- Biopsychosocial factors in health
Background:
- Individual pain variability is influenced by biopsychosocial factors.
- Parental pain catastrophizing is linked to children's clinical pain severity.
- The association between parental pain catastrophizing and children's experimental pain sensitivity is not well understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between parental pain catastrophizing and experimental pain sensitivity in adolescent girls.
- To determine if parental pain catastrophizing predicts children's pain responses.
- To explore potential moderating factors such as child's pain catastrophizing and pubertal development.
Main Methods:
- Forty-five healthy adolescent girls and their parents participated.
- Parents completed the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) for themselves and their child.
- Children completed the PCS and a pubertal development scale; underwent psychophysical pain sensitivity tests.
Main Results:
- No significant correlations were found between parental pain catastrophizing (PCS-Parent or PCS-Parentchild) and children's experimental pain sensitivity.
- Results remained non-significant after controlling for the child's pain catastrophizing (PCS-Child) and pubertal development (PDS).
- No differences in pain sensitivity were observed based on family history of psychiatric disorders.
Conclusions:
- Parental pain catastrophizing appears to have a minimal impact on the experimental pain sensitivity of healthy adolescent girls.
- Further research may be needed to identify other key factors influencing pain sensitivity in this population.
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