• Clin J Pain · Dec 2018

    Maternal Protective Parenting Accounts for the Relationship between Pain Behaviors and Functional Disability in Adolescents.

    • Anne M Lynch-Jordan, James Peugh, Natoshia R Cunningham, Jessica R Trygier, and Susmita Kashikar-Zuck.
    • Division of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
    • Clin J Pain. 2018 Dec 1; 34 (12): 1089-1095.

    IntroductionA variety of factors influence parent responses to pain behaviors they observe in their adolescents with chronic pain. Certain parental responses to pain, such as attention or overprotection, can adversely impact adolescent adaptive functioning and correspond to poor clinical outcomes.ObjectivesIt was hypothesized that the relationship between adolescent pain behaviors and functional disability was mediated by maladaptive parenting (protective, monitoring, solicitousness) responses.Materials And MethodsParticipants were 303 adolescents and their mothers presenting to a pain clinic. Adolescents completed measures of functional disability and pain intensity; mothers completed measures assessing adolescent pain behaviors, their own catastrophizing about their adolescent's pain, and responses to pain. A path model tested the direct and indirect associations between pain behaviors and disability via 3 parenting responses, controlling for average pain intensity and parent pain catastrophizing.ResultsGreater pain behavior was associated with increased protective responses (α path, P<0.001); greater protective behavior was associated with increased disability (β path, P=0.002). Including parenting responses in the model, the path between pain behaviors and disability remained significant (c' path, P<0.001). The indirect path between pain behaviors and disability via parenting responses was significant for protective responses (P<0.02), controlling for pain intensity and parent pain catastrophizing. The indirect effect of protective responses explained 18% of the variance between pain behaviors and disability.DiscussionObserving adolescent pain behaviors may prompt parents to engage in increased protective behavior that negatively impacts adolescents' functioning, even after controlling for the effects of parental pain catastrophizing.

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