Parent-child pain relationships from a psychosocial perspective: a review of the literature
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posted on 2024-06-04, 07:34authored bySubhadra EvansSubhadra Evans, JCI Tsao, Q Lu, C Myers, J Suresh, LK Zeltzer
Chronic or recurrent pain is a widespread health issue that affects a large proportion of the population, including adults and children. Family factors in the development of pain have received increasing attention of late as research has shown that pain tends to run in families, A burgeoning literature has also demonstrated the influence of parental factors in children's responses to chronic and laboratory pain. This review attempts to integrate: first,) the literature documenting an association between parent and child pain both within the clinical chronic pain and laboratory pain literatures; and second,) research accounting for likely mechanisms explaining the parent-child pain association. To this end, we present a conceptual model that incorporates a number of parent and child specific characteristics, such as parental responses, coping and gender role socialization as well as broader socio-demographic factors such as parent and child age and sex, family functioning, socioeconomic status, and race/ethnicity. It is anticipated that consideration of such variables will lead to needed research exploring the mechanisms of parent-child pain relationships, and to interventions designed to prevent and ameliorate child pain sensitivity when it correlates with poor adaptation to pain.
History
Journal
Journal of pain management
Volume
1
Pagination
237-246
Location
Hauppauge, N.Y.
ISSN
1939-5914
Language
eng
Publication classification
C Journal article, C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal