• J Pain · Feb 2014

    Postoperative pain in children: association between anxiety sensitivity, pain catastrophizing, and female caregivers' responses to children's pain.

    • Rosa Esteve, Vanessa Marquina-Aponte, and Carmen Ramírez-Maestre.
    • Department of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments, School of Psychology, University of Málaga, Spain.. Electronic address: zarazaga@uma.es.
    • J Pain. 2014 Feb 1;15(2):157-68.e1.

    UnlabelledThis study investigated the association between anxiety sensitivity and pain catastrophizing in children, caregivers' anxiety sensitivity and catastrophizing about children's pain and responses to children's pain, pain intensity reported by children, and pain intensity estimated by caregivers. The participants were 102 children scheduled for outpatient surgery and their female caregivers. Before the operation, caregivers' catastrophizing about children's pain, children's pain catastrophizing, and their anxiety sensitivity were assessed, as well as caregivers' responses to children's pain. Pain intensity reported by children and estimated by caregivers was evaluated after the operation and 24 hours afterward. Analyses were performed via path analysis. The results indicated that children and caregivers characterized by higher levels of anxiety sensitivity reported higher levels of pain catastrophizing and catastrophic thinking about children's pain, respectively. Caregivers with higher levels of catastrophic thinking about the children's pain reported higher levels of solicitousness and higher estimations of the children's pain intensity after the operation. Higher levels of children's pain catastrophizing were associated with more frequent responses of discouragement and higher pain intensity reported after the operation. These findings highlight the relevance of catastrophizing about children's pain and children's pain catastrophizing in the experience of postoperative pain in children.PerspectivePath analysis was used to test a hypothetical model of the associations between anxiety sensitivity, catastrophizing, parental responses, and postoperative pain in children. The results highlight the association between children's and parents' pain catastrophizing and discouragement and solicitous responses and the role of anxiety sensitivity as a traitlike factor associated with catastrophizing.Copyright © 2014 American Pain Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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