Journal article
Parenting in the Context of Chronic Pain: A Controlled Study of Parents With Chronic Pain
The Clinical journal of pain, Vol.31(8), pp.689-698
08/2015
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/104826
PMCID: PMC4363302
PMID: 25232862
Abstract
OBJECTIVES:This study aims to describe what adults with chronic pain experience in their role as parents, utilizing quantitative and qualitative methods. The first aim was to compare parents with chronic pain to parents without chronic pain on perceptions of their adolescent’s pain, parental response to pain, and catastrophizing beliefs about pain. The study also examined predictors of parental protective behaviors, and examined whether these associations differed by study group.
MATERIALS AND METHODS:Parents with chronic pain (n=58) and parents without chronic pain (n=72) participated, and completed questionnaire measures of pain characteristics and pain interference, as well as measures of parental catastrophizing and protective pain responses. Parents with chronic pain also completed a structured interview about their experience of being a parent. Interview responses were videotaped and subsequently coded for content.
RESULTS:Compared with controls, parents with chronic pain endorsed more pain in their adolescents, and were more likely to catastrophize about their adolescent’s pain and respond with protective behaviors. Parent’s own pain interference and the perception of higher pain in their adolescent was associated with increased protective parenting in the chronic pain group. Qualitative coding revealed a number of areas of common impact of chronic pain on parenting.
DISCUSSION:Chronic pain impacts everyday parenting activities and emotions, and impacts pain-specific parent responses that are known to be related to increased pain and pain catastrophizing in children and adolescents. Parents with chronic pain might benefit from interventions that address potential parenting difficulties, and might improve outcomes for their children.
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- Title
- Parenting in the Context of Chronic Pain: A Controlled Study of Parents With Chronic Pain
- Creators
- Anna Wilson - Institute on Development and Disability, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR †Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Vancouver, WAJessica Fales
- Publication Details
- The Clinical journal of pain, Vol.31(8), pp.689-698
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- Copyright Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved
- Identifiers
- 99900546760801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article