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The Pain Coping Questionnaire short-form: preliminary reliability and validity.
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Trauma-Informed Procedural Pain Intervention: Refinement of an Evidence-Based Protocol
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pain coping tools for children and young adults with a neurodevelopmental disability: A systematic review of measurement properties.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Field Stimulation Improves Weight and Other Anthropometric Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Functional Dyspepsia Who Restrict Their Oral Intake.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2026Article
- Perspectives on Pain: A Narrative Review of Pain Beliefs, Coping, and Clinical Implications.Journal of pain research · 2026Review
- French-Canadian adaptation and validation of the adolescents' Pain Coping Questionnaire.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2026Article
- A core outcome set to assess chronic pain interference and impact on emotional functioning for children and young people with cerebral palsy.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2025Article
- Evidence-Based Classification, Assessment, and Management of Pain in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Structured Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Chronic pain in children and young people with cerebral palsy: a narrative review of challenges, advances, and future directions.BMC medicine · 2024Review
- Considerations for Pain Assessments in Cancer Patients: A Narrative Review of the Latin American Perspective.Cureus · 2023Review
- Pain-coping scale for children and their parents: a cross-sectional study in children with musculoskeletal pain.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionThe Pain Coping Questionnaire (PCQ) has support for its validity and reliability as a tool to understand how a child copes with pain of an extended duration. However, measure length may limit feasibility in clinical settings.
objectivesThe primary goal of this study was to develop a short-form (PCQ-SF) that could be used for screening how children cope with chronic or recurrent pain and examine its reliability and validity.
methodsThe PCQ-SF was developed in a stepwise manner. First, a confirmatory factor analysis was computed using an amalgamated data set from the validation studies of the PCQ (N = 1225). Next, ratings from researchers and clinicians were obtained on PCQ item content and clarity (n = 12). Finally, the resulting 16-item short-form was tested in a pediatric sample living with chronic and recurrent pain (65 parent-child dyads; n = 128).
resultsThe PCQ-SF has acceptable preliminary reliability and validity. Both statistical and expert analyses support the collective use of the 16 items as an alternative to the full measure.
conclusionsThe compact format of the PCQ-SF will allow practitioners in high-volume clinical environments to quickly determine a child's areas of strengths and weaknesses when coping with pain. Future research using larger more diverse samples to confirm clinical validity is warranted.
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