ArticleCephalalgia : an international journal of headache2015
Fear of pain in pediatric headache.
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- The Photo- and Phonosensitivity Avoidance Behavior Scales: Evaluating Clinical Utility in Pediatric Primary Chronic Headache.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Pediatric Pain Screening Tool (PPST) can Rapidly Identify Elevated Pain and Psychosocial Symptomatology in Treatment-Seeking Youth with Acute Musculoskeletal Pain.The journal of pain · 2022Article
- Development and Feasibility of the Headache-Related Light and Sound Sensitivity Inventories in Youth.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The impact of Pain-related emotions on migraine.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Pain Catastrophizing in Childhood Migraine: An Observational Study in a Tertiary Headache Center.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Article
- A systematic review of structural and functional MRI studies on pain catastrophizing.Journal of pain research · 2019Article
- Defence response mobilization in response to provocation or imagery of interoceptive sensations in adolescents with chronic pain: a study protocol.Pain reports · 2018Article
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- Clinical Phenotyping of Youth With New-Onset Musculoskeletal Pain: A Controlled Cohort Study.The Clinical journal of pain · 2017Article
- Fear of pain in children and adolescents with neuropathic pain and complex regional pain syndrome.Pain · 2016Article
- Hippocampal volume changes across developmental periods in female migraineurs.Neurobiology of pain (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe current study provides the first measure of pain-related fear for pediatric headache patients.
methodsFrom a large pediatric headache clinic, a cross-sectional cohort of 206 children and adolescents completed measures of pain-related fear, anxiety sensitivity, catastrophizing, pain acceptance, functional disability, and school functioning.
resultsThe two-factor solution of the Fear of Pain Questionnaire (FOPQ) was confirmed from the originally derived structure with pediatric headache patients. Simultaneously regressing FOPQ subscales fear of pain and activity avoidance on theorized construct validity measures demonstrated that fear of pain was more closely linked with anxiety sensitivity and pain catastrophizing while activity avoidance had a strong negative association with pain acceptance (activity engagement and pain willingness). Pain-related fear was not significantly associated with pain level. After controlling for demographic factors and pain, fear of pain and activity avoidance accounted for an additional 26% of the variance in functional disability and school functioning outcomes, with activity avoidance accounting for much of this relationship.
conclusionsAlthough typically considered an influential construct among musculoskeletal patients, pain-related fear is also an important factor influencing functioning among pediatric headache patients, with the dimension of activity avoidance particularly salient.
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