State Versus Trait: Validating State Assessment of Child and Parental Catastrophic Thinking About Children's Acute Pain

What is it about?

This paper examined the psychometric properties of a situation-specific form of the Pain Catastrophizing Scales for Children and Parents.

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Why is it important?

Pain catastrophizing is a significant predictor of pediatric pain outcomes. These results underscore the importance of assessing situation-specific pain catastrophizing about acute pain experiences, and provide a clinically useful tool for its assessment in parents and children.