Journal of pediatric psychology
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To explore maternal experience following youth assault occurring in the community. ⋯ Distress is common among low-income African-American mothers of youth assault victims. To bolster youth recovery and to reduce the risk of future injury, ED staff should be knowledgeable regarding culturally sensitive resources to address maternal distress.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Attentional biases to pain and social threat in children with recurrent abdominal pain.
To test whether children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) exhibit subliminal (nonconscious) and supraliminal (conscious) attentional biases to pain-related words, and to determine correlates of these biases. Previous research indicates that individuals attend to disorder-relevant threat words, and in this study, attentional biases to disorder-relevant threat (pain), alternative threat (social threat), and neutral words were compared. ⋯ Children with RAP show nonconscious attention to and conscious avoidance of threat-related words. Their attentional biases relate to individual differences in symptom severity. Implications for models of pediatric pain and future studies are discussed.
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To examine how children's injury attributions and coping strategies relate to procedure-related distress during unplanned medical procedures (laceration repair). ⋯ Injury attributions and coping style are significant factors in children's pain experiences. These results suggest that self-blame may heighten subsequent pain experiences. In addition, similar coping strategies appear to be adaptive for unplanned medical procedures as have been found for planned medical procedures.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
A comparison of distraction strategies for venipuncture distress in children.
To compare the effects of two pediatric venipuncture distress-management distraction strategies that differed in the degree to which they required children's interaction. ⋯ Despite literature that suggests that interactive distraction should lower distress more than passive distraction, results indicate that a passive strategy might be most effective for children's venipuncture. It is possible that children's distress interfered with their ability to interact with the distractor.