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Adverse childhood experiences in parents of youth with chronic pain: prevalence and comparison with a community-based sample.
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- The Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization Scale-Child Version (SPTS-C): Development and preliminary validation.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2024Article
- Family Caregiver Acceptability of Assessing Caregiver Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Distress in Pediatric Specialty Care.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Youth with Chronic Pain and Their Parents: A Longitudinal Examination of Who Are Most at Risk.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Pediatric Chronic Pain in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lived Experiences of Youth and Parents.The journal of pain · 2022Article
- The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Pain Management: Mechanisms, Processes, and Trauma-Informed Care.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Examining Parent Adverse Childhood Experiences as a Distal Risk Factor in Pediatric Chronic Pain.The Clinical journal of pain · 2021Article
- The Parent Version of the Sensitivity to Pain Traumatization Scale (SPTS-P): A Preliminary Validation.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Pain in the Developing Brain: Early Life Factors Alter Nociception and Neurobiological Function in Adolescent Rats.Cerebral cortex communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common occurrences that are related to poor health outcomes, including chronic pain, in youth and adults. Research suggests that children of parents exposed to ACEs are also at risk of poor outcomes. However, little is known about the risk that ACEs confer for chronic pain across generations. Parent ACEs may play an important role in pediatric chronic pain, given their association with key parent factors (eg, mental and physical health).
objectivesThis study evaluated the prevalence of ACEs in parents of youth with chronic pain and compared these rates to a community-based sample.
methodsOne hundred seventy parents of youth (aged 10-18 years) with chronic pain, recruited from a tertiary-level chronic pain program at a pediatric hospital in Canada, completed a self-report measure of ACEs. A comparison sample (n = 3914) was drawn from a local, community-based study that examined ACEs among adults in primary care.
resultsAmong parents of youth with chronic pain, 67.6% reported ≥1 ACE and 23.5% reported ≥4 ACEs. Controlling for sociodemographic factors, ACEs were similar across samples, except parents of youth with chronic pain reported significantly higher rates of physical neglect (odds ratio = 2.14; 95% confidence interval = 1.35-3.40) than the community-based sample.
conclusionAdverse childhood experiences are prevalent among parents of youth with chronic pain, with physical neglect reported more frequently than the community-based sample. Further research that examines the association between parent ACEs and child chronic pain, as well as neurobiological and psychosocial factors that may mediate this potential relation, is needed.
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