Journal of pediatric psychology
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Utility of the PROMIS Pediatric Pain Interference Scale in Juvenile Fibromyalgia.
The current study tested the utility of the PROMIS Pediatric Pain Interference (PPI) in relation to the widely-used Functional Disability Inventory (FDI) in a small-scale clinical trial. ⋯ The PPI may be appropriate for use in non-pharmacologic interventions for pediatric pain.
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The objective of this study is to examine parent and youth appraisals of illness uncertainty as potential serial mediators in the relation between disease severity and youth depressive symptoms in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). ⋯ Results indicate that increased disease activity may serve to magnify the unpredictable nature of IBD for parents, reflected in heightened perceptions of illness uncertainty. Our findings also suggest that increased parent illness uncertainty has a significant influence on youth illness uncertainty appraisals, which in turn translates into elevated depressive symptoms in adolescents with IBD. The clinical implications of our findings and suggestions for future studies are discussed.