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Psychosocial Factors Affecting Parental Report of Symptoms in Children: A Systematic Review.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of factors associated with side-effect expectations from medical interventions.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2020Pooled it
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- Parental Expectations, Anxiety, and Health Behaviors in Routine Childhood Vaccination: Associations with Child Pain and Symptom Experiences.Journal of pediatrics. Clinical practice · 2026Article
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- Congruence Between Child Self-Reported and Caregiver-Proxy-Reported Health-Related Quality of Life in Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.The Journal of rheumatology · 2026Observational
- Evaluation of environmental-genetic factors and mental health outcomes for sleep disturbance from late childhood to early adolescence.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Rational drug use in pediatric pain management: maternal attitudes and practices.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Behavioral outcomes of preschool children with congenital heart disease and controls.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Parental psychosocial factors associated with parental reporting of their child's administrative ADHD diagnosis - results from the consortium project INTEGRATE-ADHD.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Symptom distress among Chinese children with cancer: what factors influence parent-child concordance?European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Agraphia due to Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder) in an 8-year-old boy: a case report.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Caregiver-Child Co-Rumination and Treatment Outcomes in a Randomized Clinical Trial of Rumination-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.Journal of depression and therapy · 2025Article
- Validity and reliability of Arabic version of pediatric migraine disability assessment scale (Child Self-Report versus Parent Proxy-Report): a multi-center study.The journal of headache and pain · 2024Article
- Caregiver-based perception of disease burden in Schaaf-Yang syndrome.Molecular genetics & genomic medicine · 2023Article
- Predictor factors affecting emotional and behavioral problems in school-aged (6-12 years) children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Agreement Level of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptom Reports between Children and Their Parents.Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology & nutrition · 2023Article
- Sleep Disturbance and Its Association With Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Attention in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- What influences whether parents recognise COVID-19 symptoms, request a test and self-isolate: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Concordance of Child Self-Reported and Parent Proxy-Reported Posttraumatic Growth in Childhood Cancer Survivors.Cancers · 2021Article
- Reasons for disagreement between proxy-report and self-report rating of symptoms in children receiving cancer therapies.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveParents make important treatment decisions for their children based on symptoms they perceive their child to be experiencing. Multiple psychological factors are associated with subjective symptom perception, but factors affecting perception of symptoms in others have been explored less. We systematically reviewed the literature to identify parent and child psychological factors associated with parental report of physical symptoms in their child.
methodsWe searched Embase, Ovid, PsycINFO, and Scopus for studies that investigated associations between psychological factors and parental report of symptoms in their child.
resultsThirty-six citations reporting on 34 studies that assessed the association between parent or child psychological factors and parental report of physical symptoms in the child were included in the review. Three main factors were identified as being associated with parental symptom report. First, there was evidence for an association between parental symptom report and affect, in particular parent and child anxiety. Second, child behavioral and conduct problems, and temperament-related challenges (problems with feeding and sleeping) were associated with parental symptom report. Third, parental expectations and beliefs that symptoms would occur were associated with parental symptom report, although few studies investigated these associations.
conclusionsParent and child affect, and parental expectations and beliefs may influence parents' cognition, causing them to pay more attention to their child, interpret their child's behavior as symptomatic, and recall symptoms in the child. Given the importance of parental perception of symptoms in driving decisions around care, additional research in this field is needed.
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