A5081849483- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
University of Calgary
2015-2024
Alberta Children's Hospital
2017-2024
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
2017-2023
Stanford University
2023
Chronic pain and mental health problems have both been identified as public emergencies co-occur at high rates. This prospective, longitudinal investigation examined whether chronic status, pain-related symptoms (intensity, interference), catastrophizing, insomnia severity predicted first lifetime onset of depressive and/or anxiety disorders well suicidality in a cohort youth with parental history mood disorders. Participants included 145 ( Mage = 13.74 years; 64% female) who completed...
Abstract Youth with chronic pain and their parents face uncertainty regarding diagnosis, treatment, prognosis. Given the uncertain nature of high comorbidity anxiety among youth, intolerance (IU) may be critical to experience pediatric pain. This study longitudinally examined major tenets Interpersonal Fear Avoidance Model Pain included parent youth IU as key factors in model. Participants 152 (M age = 14.23 years; 72% female) (93% female). At baseline, reported on catastrophic thinking...
Abstract Attentional biases are posited to play a key role in the development and maintenance of chronic pain adults youth. However, research date has yielded mixed findings, few studies have examined attentional pediatric samples. This study used eye-gaze tracking examine pain-related stimuli clinical sample youth with pain-free controls. The moderating control was also examined. Youth (n = 102) controls 53) viewed images children depicting varying levels expressiveness paired neutral faces...
Chronic pain in youth is often associated with social conflict, depression, and suicidality. The interpersonal theory of suicide posits that there are psychosocial factors, such as peer victimization lack fear pain, may also influence suicidality.The objective this study was to determine whether depressive symptoms, victimization, predict suicidality adolescents chronic pain. It hypothesized higher levels symptoms lower would a lifetime prevalence suicidality.Participants consisted 184...
Paediatric chronic pain was a public health emergency before the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and this problem is predicted to escalate. Pain tends occur intergenerationally in families, youth with their parents have high rates of mental issues, which can further exacerbate pain. Siblings been largely overlooked research, as well impact pandemic on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms healthcare utilization.This cross-sectional study examined pain, utilization three...
Chronic pain is a pervasive condition in adolescence and associated with significant psychological distress, functional disability, social isolation, decreased quality of life for subset affected youth. There paucity research examining potential resilience factors adaptive processes pediatric chronic pain. Benefit finding refers to the process perceiving positive consequences face adversity. Previous on benefit samples (e.g., oncology; acute injury) has yielded inconsistent results. This...
Background Sensitivity to pain traumatization is defined as the propensity develop cognitive, affective, and behavioural responses that resemble a traumatic stress reaction. To date, sensitivity has been assessed in adults (SPTS–12) parents of youth with chronic (SPTS–P). SPT may be relevant context pediatric given substantial comorbidity between posttraumatic symptoms pain.
Objectives: Chronic pain and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) co-occur in youth at high rates. Current conceptual models of mutual maintenance do not identify specific resilience factors, such as benefit finding this co-occurrence. Benefit is the process perceiving positive benefits results experiencing adversity. It has been viewed a potential mitigator for illness symptoms; however, only minimal cross-sectional research conducted none longitudinally examined possible buffering effect...
Abstract Attentional biases have been posited as one of the key mechanisms underlying development and maintenance chronic pain co-occurring internalizing mental health symptoms. Despite this theoretical prominence, a comprehensive understanding nature biased attentional processing in its relationship to theorized antecedents clinical outcomes is lacking, particularly youth. This study used eye-tracking assess bias for painful facial expressions outcomes. Youth with (n = 125) without 52)...
Pediatric chronic pain is a significant problem in Canada, affecting one five youth. This study describes the impact of pandemic on experiences Canadian families living with through interviews youth pain, parents, and siblings.
The objective of this study was to assess resilience in parents youth with chronic pain, as well examine the relationships between parental and distress, child pain. There is evidence that can play a critical role how their children's pain problems develop, are experienced, maintained, yet no date has quantitatively evaluated resilience. Participants were 135 parent–child dyads referred tertiary-level program. Parents completed measures post-traumatic growth (PTG), stress symptoms, anxiety,...
Negatively biased pain memories robustly predict maladaptive outcomes in children. Both attention bias to and parental narrative style have been linked with the development of these negative biases, previous studies indicating that how parents talk their child about might buffer influence children's on such negatively memories. This study investigated moderating role relation between pain-related memory biases a pediatric chronic sample who underwent cold pressor task. Participants were 85...