A5024400047- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Music Therapy and Health
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Family Support in Illness
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Infant Health and Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Occupational Health and Performance
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
University of Calgary
2019-2024
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
2021
Alberta Children's Hospital
2021
Abstract Negatively biased memories for pain (ie, recalled is higher than initial report) robustly predict future experiences. During early childhood, parent–child reminiscing has been posited as playing a critical role in how children's are constructed and reconstructed; however, this not empirically demonstrated. This study examined the of about recent painful surgery young memory development. Participants included 112 children (M age = 5.3 years; 60% boys) who underwent tonsillectomy one...
Abstract Pain (eg, needle injections, injuries, and chronic pain) is highly prevalent in childhood occurs social contexts. Nevertheless, broader sociocultural influences on pediatric pain, such as popular media, have not been empirically examined. This study examined how pain portrayed gendered children's media. A cross-section of media targeted towards 4- to 6-year-old children was selected based popularity, including 10 movies the first season 6 television shows. instances were extracted...
Objectives: This study was the first to apply a socio-narratology framework narratives about child pain as told by youth with chronic and their parents, all of whom experience headaches. Background: Storytelling is powerful social transaction that occurs within systems (eg, families, clinical encounters) both shaped by, can shape, experience. Narrative be harnessed tool aid in ability listen, understand, improve encounters. Methods: Twenty-six (aged 11 18 y) mothers, headaches, recruited...
Objective Painful experiences are common, distressing, and salient in childhood. Parent-child reminiscing about past painful is an untapped opportunity to process pain-related distress and, similar other distressing experiences, promotes children's broader development. Previous research has documented the role of parent-child pain cognitions (i.e., memories for pain), but no study date examined association between cognitive skills. Design Methods One hundred ten typically developing...
Three to 22% of youth undergoing surgery develop chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP). Negative biases in memories (i.e., recalling higher levels as compared initial reports) are a risk factor for CPSP development. Children's modifiable. Existing memory-reframing interventions reduced negatively biased associated with procedural and after minor surgery. However, not one study has tested the feasibility acceptability intervention major surgery.The current pilot randomized clinical trial (RCT;...
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.
Empathy for pain allows one to recognize, understand, and respond another person's in a prosocial manner. Young children develop empathy later than other negative emotions (e.g., sadness), which may be due social learning. How parents reminisce with about past painful events has been linked children's cognitions memory) broader socioemotional development. The present study examined how parent-child reminiscing empathic behaviors toward pain.One hundred fourteen 4-year-old (55% girls) each,...
Children's memories for past pain set the stage their future experiences. Parent-child reminiscing about plays a key role in shaping children's memories. Parental beliefs functions of are associated with parental behaviors. To date, no studies have investigated regarding or associations between and pain. This study aimed to fill these gaps. One-hundred seven parents (52% fathers) young children were asked Interview data first analyzed using inductive reflexive thematic analysis. A coding...