Trial reportJournal of pediatric psychology2014
The effects of mindful attention and state mindfulness on acute experimental pain among adolescents.
Trial report in Journal of pediatric psychology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 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
- Psychological Interventions in Patients with Physical Pain: A Focus on Catastrophizing and Resilience-A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The effect of a one-time mindfulness intervention on body and mind in healthy adolescents using multimodal measurements.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- 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
- Non-pharmacological management of pediatric functional abdominal pain disorders: Current evidence and future perspectives.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2022Review
- Effects of Occupational Therapy Program Based on Active Meditation on Hair Cortisol Levels in Undergraduate Healthcare Students.Occupational therapy international · 2022Article
- A psychometric evaluation of the Italian short version of the Fear of Pain Questionnaire-III: Psychometric properties, measurement invariance across gender, convergent, and discriminant validity.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- 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
- Relationship of Mindfulness to Distress and Cortisol Response in Adolescent Girls At-Risk for Type 2 Diabetes.Journal of child and family studies · 2018Article
- Mindfulness training for adolescents: A neurodevelopmental perspective on investigating modifications in attention and emotion regulation using event-related brain potentials.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2015Review
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Abstract
objectiveAttention-based coping strategies for pain are widely used in pediatric populations. The purpose of this study was to test a novel mindful attention manipulation on adolescent's experimental pain responses. Furthermore, the relationship between state mindfulness and experimental pain was examined.
methodsA total of 198 adolescents were randomly assigned to a mindful attention manipulation or control group prior to an experimental pain task. Participants completed measures of state mindfulness immediately prior to the pain task, and situational catastrophizing and pain intensity following the task.
resultsOverall the manipulation had no effect on pain. Secondary analysis showed that meditation experience moderated the effect of the manipulation. State mindfulness predicted pain outcomes, with reductions in situational catastrophizing mediating this relationship.
conclusionsThe mindful attention manipulation was effective among adolescents with a regular meditation practice. State mindfulness was related to ameliorated pain responses, and these effects were mediated by reduced catastrophizing.
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