BACKGROUND The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine the associations among psychological factors and pain reports of children and their parents over the 12 month period after pediatric surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Included in the study were 83 children aged 8-18 years undergoing major surgery. In each case, the child and one of their parents completed measures of pain intensity an...

Catastrophizing is a cognitive process that can be defined as predicting the worst possible outcome. It has been shown to related psychiatric diagnoses such depression and anxiety, yet there are no self-report questionnaires specifically measuring it outside context of pain research. Here, we therefore develop novel, comprehensive measure general catastrophizing. We performed five online studie...

Abstract In this study, we examined the conditional indirect and direct relations of pain-related cognitions to depression. Subjective helplessness was included as presumably mediating catastrophizing thought suppression depression due motivational deficits. addition, moderating effects dispositional action versus state orientation were analyzed, whereby indicates volitional deficits in coping ...

Pain catastrophizing is conceptualized as a negative cognitive-affective response to anticipated or actual pain and has been associated with a number of important pain-related outcomes. In the present review, we first focus our efforts on the conceptualization of pain catastrophizing, highlighting its conceptual history and potential problem areas. We then focus our discussion on a number of th...

This study examined the effects of thought suppression, prior to an experimental pain procedure, on subsequent pain experience. The study also examined the role of thought intrusions in mediating the relation between (1) thought suppression and pain, and (2) catastrophizing and pain. Catastrophizers (n = 34) and noncatastrophizers (n = 36) made pain ratings while one arm was immersed in ice wat...

Conflicts of interest: No conflicts of interest exist with regard to the presented work What's already known about this topic? • Distraction reduces pain but pain catastrophizing interferes with this effect • Mindfulness-based interventions are beneficial for the treatment of chronic pain but it is unclear if mindfulness can be induced to deal with acute pain • Mindfulness is believed to counte...

We report the results of a randomized controlled trial that compared the efficacy of an internet-based self-help treatment for paediatric headache including chat communication (cognitive-behavioural treatment, CBT) with an internet-based psychoeducation intervention (EDU). In the CBT group, significant preto post-treatment decreases were found for headache frequency and pain catastrophizing, bu...

OBJECTIVE Comparing health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children suffering from functional and organic gastrointestinal disorders and to identify predictors for HRQOL. METHODS Children with functional (n = 70) and organic (n = 100) gastrointestinal disorders, aged 8-18 years and referred to a pediatric gastroenterologist, completed questionnaires assessing pain severity, coping, and HRQ...

Introduction: Functional dyspepsia is a group of gastrointestinal disorders in which the psychological symptoms play significant role their incidence. Aim: The aim this study determination relationship between distress and physical functional with mediating pain-related mental imagery, visceral sensitivity, pain catastrophizing self-efficacy. Method: present conducted using descriptive cross-se...

OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that pain threat appraisal and catastrophizing by children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) will moderate the relation between parent verbal behavior and children's symptom complaints following experimentally induced visceral discomfort. METHODS Thirty-three pediatric patients with FAP and their parents participated. Children completed measures of pain t...