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The effects of mindfulness-based attention on cold pressor pain in children.
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A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing the Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Both Parents and Children During Child Venipuncture
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Brief Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Acute and Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Pooled it
- The effects of mindful attention and state mindfulness on acute experimental pain among adolescents.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2014Trial
- Chronic pain as an emergent property of a complex system and the potential roles of psychedelic therapies.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Brief Mindfulness Intervention for Parents and Children before Pediatric Venipuncture: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Mindfulness-Based Virtual Reality Intervention for Children and Young Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Pilot Feasibility and Acceptability Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a child and parent mindfulness intervention for pediatric venipuncture.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2021Article
- Efficacy and Feasibility of Behavioral Treatments for Migraine, Headache, and Pain in the Acute Care Setting.Current pain and headache reports · 2020Review
- Parental stress, anxiety and trait mindfulness: associations with parent-child mealtime interactions in children with type 1 diabetes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2020Article
- Why Unidimensional Pain Measurement Prevails in the Pediatric Acute Pain Context and What Multidimensional Self-Report Methods Can Offer.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Pain Control and Parent Mental Health Among Pediatric Inpatients.Hospital pediatrics · 2017Observational
- The influence of mindfulness on upper extremity illness.Hand (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Article
- A practical guide and perspectives on the use of experimental pain modalities with children and adolescents.Pain management · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundTypical interventions for acute pain in children attempt to reduce pain by directing attention away from pain. Conversely, mindfulness involves devoting attention to one's experience in an accepting and nonjudgmental way. However, the effect that instructing children to mindfully devote attention to acute pain has on pain outcomes is unknown.
objectivesTo examine whether mindful attention can help children attend to pain without increasing pain intensity or decreasing pain tolerance; to compare the effects of mindful attention with a well-established intervention designed to take attention away from pain (guided imagery); and to test whether baseline coping style or trait mindfulness alter the effects of these interventions.
methodsA total of 82 children (10 to 14 years of age) completed measures of coping style and trait mindfulness. Participants then received either mindful attention or guided imagery instructions designed to direct attention toward or away from pain, respectively, before participating in a cold pressor task.
resultsThe mindful attention group reported more awareness of the physical sensations of pain and thoughts about those sensations. Overall, there were no between-group differences in measures of pain intensity or pain tolerance during the cold pressor task, and no evidence of an interaction between baseline characteristics of the child and experimental condition.
conclusionsMindful attention was successful in helping children focus attention on experimental pain without increasing pain intensity or decreasing tolerance compared with a well-established intervention for acute pain reduction.
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