The Clinical journal of pain
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Pediatric chronic pain has often been examined from a risk perspective, and relatively less is known about the individual and family-level resilience factors that help youth with chronic pain maintain their quality of life (QOL). This cross-sectional study: (1) examined the relations among purported youth and parent resilience (youth pain acceptance and pain self-efficacy, parent psychological flexibility) and risk (youth pain intensity and parent protectiveness) factors with youth QOL, and (2) tested exploratory statistical mechanisms that may explain relations between parent and youth variables. ⋯ The results are discussed in the context of the resilience-risk framework and current understandings of the role of parental factors for pediatric chronic pain.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The Influence of a Positive Empathetic Interaction on Conditioned Pain Modulation and Manipulation Induced Analgesia in People with Lateral Epicondylalgia.
Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) and manipulation-induced analgesia (MIA) are 2 forms of endogenous analgesia. Many forms of analgesia can be influenced by the nature of the patient-clinician interaction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of an empathetic and supportive interaction on CPM and MIA in people with lateral epicondylalgia (LE). ⋯ A single session of empathetic interaction positively influenced both CPM and MIA responses in people with LE.
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The use of opioids to relieve pain is a challenge because of the high variability in dose requirements and tolerance profiles. Among potential modulators are the individual's genetic background and being female. Our aim was to evaluate sex bias and genotype-related influence on opioid titration safety, in chronic low back pain (CLBP), the most frequent chronic noncancer pain. ⋯ Sex bias affects female patients resulting in a CLBP diagnostic delay and a different analgesic safety profile. Moreover, the individual's genetic background might be useful to predict certain AEs in opioid-naive patients under an opioid titration procedure. Addressing sex in necessary to resolve inequalities in health care access.
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We estimated the association between the presence of pain and health care utilization among older adults residing in long-term care (LTC) facilities. ⋯ To our knowledge, this is the first large-scale project to examine the utilization of health care resources as a function of pain status among LTC facility residents. Improved pain management in LTC facilities could lead to reduced health care use.
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Before an intervention can be implemented to improve pain-related self-efficacy, assessment is required. The aim of the present study was to provide a systematic review on which self-efficacy scales are being used among patients with back pain and to evaluate their psychometric properties. ⋯ Further research should focus on assessing validity and interpretability of these questionnaires, especially in pain-related target groups. Researchers should select questionnaires that are most appropriate for their study aims and the back pain population and contribute to further validation of these scales to best predict future behavior and develop intervention programs. This systematic review aids selection of pain-related assessment tools in back pain both in research and practice.