Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur
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Chronic pain is a prevalent health condition associated with parenting difficulties. Pain-specific parenting, such as protectiveness and catastrophizing, may contribute to chronic pain in children. Additional work is needed to test predictors of pain-specific parenting. Aim: The current study tested parent mental health symptoms as predictors of protectiveness and catastrophizing about child pain and whether comorbid pain and mental health symptoms exacerbate risk for problematic responses to children's pain. ⋯ Findings highlight the potential impact of mental health symptoms on pain-specific parenting even when accounting for chronic pain status.