Parental Catastrophizing Partially Mediates the Association between Parent-Reported Child Pain Behavior and Parental Protective Responses. (20th January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Langer, Shelby L.; Romano, Joan M.; Mancl, Lloyd; Levy, Rona L.
• Other Names: Evers S. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Pain research and treatment. Volume 2014(2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-01-20
• Subjects: Pain -- Periodicals; Pain -- Research -- Periodicals; Pain -- Prevention -- Periodicals; Pain -- Treatment -- Periodicals; 616.047205
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/751097
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2090-1542

Abstract

Abstract : This study sought to model and test the role of parental catastrophizing in relationship to parent-reported child pain behavior and parental protective (solicitous) responses to child pain in a sample of children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and their parents (n = 184 dyads). Parents completed measures designed to assess cognitions about and responses to their child's abdominal pain. They also rated their child's pain behavior. Mediation analyses were performed using regression-based techniques and bootstrapping. Results supported a model treating parent-reported child pain behavior as the predictor, parental catastrophizing as the mediator, and parental protective responses as the outcome. Parent-reported child pain behavior predicted parental protective responses and this association was mediated by parental catastrophizing about child pain: indirect effect (SE) = 2.08 (0.56); 95% CI = 1.09, 3.30. The proportion of the total effect mediated was 68%. Findings suggest that interventions designed to modify maladaptive parental responses to children's pain behaviors should assess, as well as target, parental catastrophizing cognitions about their child's pain.