Hospital Emergency Rooms and Children's Health Care Attitudes

Peterson, Carole; Tucker, Veronica

doi:10.1093/jpepsy/27.3.281

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“…It has been suggested that parent-child interactions about pain (e.g., pain narratives) following surgery, particularly for younger children, may play an important role in children’s pain cognitions and pain experiences (Noel, Chambers, Petter, et al, 2012; Simons & Sieberg, 2015). Parent-child language based interactions about pain have been shown to strongly influence children’s memories for and coping with other kinds of stressful events, including injuries (Peterson, Ross, & Tucker, 2002), and may be a more proximal predictor of children’s pain memories and post-surgical pain experience. In addition, the stability of pain memories is unknown.…”

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The influence of pain memories on children’s and adolescents’ post-surgical pain experience: A longitudinal dyadic analysis.

Noel¹,

Rabbitts²,

Fales³

et al. 2017

Health Psychology

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Objective Although children’s pain memories have been shown to be a powerful predictor of subsequent pain experiences in acute procedural and experimental pain settings, little is known about the influence of children’s and parents’ pain memories on children’s future pain experiences in other painful contexts. This study used a dyadic approach to examine the roles of children’s and parents’ memories of pain on their subsequent reporting of post-surgical pain several months after the child underwent a major surgical procedure. Methods The sample included 66 parent-child dyads (Mage youth = 14.73 years, SD = 2.01) recruited from two tertiary level pediatric hospitals. At baseline, children and parents reported on their catastrophic thinking about the child’s pain. Parent and child reports of child pain were collected at approximately 1 month and 5 months post-surgery. At 2–4 months post-surgery, children’s and parents’ memories for post-surgical pain were assessed. Results Results revealed that children’s, but not parents’, pain memories were a strong predictor of subsequent pain experienced at 5 months post-surgery. Children’s and parents’ memories for pain did not influence each others’ subsequent pain reporting. Conclusions Findings suggest that children’s pain memories influence their continued recovery from post-surgical pain and may contribute to pain persistence. Implications for intervention and prevention are discussed.

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The influence of pain memories on children’s and adolescents’ post-surgical pain experience: A longitudinal dyadic analysis.

Noel¹,

Rabbitts²,

Fales³

et al. 2017

Health Psychology

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“…Furthermore, it has been conjectured that positive healthcare experiences in childhood may render children more likely to adopt positive or healthpromoting attitudes towards healthcare and subsequently seek out medical care when appropriate (Bachanas & Roberts, 1995;Hackworth & McMahon, 1991). Indeed, increased positive contact with healthcare professionals has been associated with more positive attitudes (Peterson, Ross, & Tucker, 2002).…”

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“…For example, negative healthcare attitudes increased the likelihood of engaging in negative healthcare behaviors (i.e., avoidance of medical visits, fear of medical procedures; Bachanas & Roberts, 1995;Pate et al, 1996;Peterson et al, 2002). Similarly, positive attitudes toward condoms have been associated with better adherence to condom use (Morrill, Ickovics, Golubchikov, & Beren, 1996).…”

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Childhood Healthcare Experience, Healthcare Attitudes, and Optimism as Predictors of Adolescents’ Healthcare Behavior

Jones

DeMore

Cohen

et al. 2008

J Clin Psychol Med Settings

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Late adolescence and early adulthood is a time when people establish many of their life-style behaviors. Thus, in order to promote optimal health, it is important to identify factors predictive of young adults' healthcare behavior. This study evaluated the relationship between measures of childhood healthcare experience, healthcare attitudes, and optimism with young adults' healthcare behavior in a sample of college students (n = 100). Results suggested that prior healthcare experience, attitudes about healthcare, and optimism are associated with current healthcare behavior. In addition, the relation between childhood healthcare experience and current healthcare behavior was moderated by optimism, such that those who reported both more negative childhood healthcare experiences and low levels of optimism reported the least adaptive healthcare behaviors and those who reported the most positive childhood healthcare experience and the highest levels of optimism reported the most adaptive healthcare behavior.

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“…Previous research suggested that negative behaviors and preoperative anxiety are more common in older children [20,25], females [25][26][27], and children with previous surgery experience [13,28,29]. We expected that these factors could predict children's preoperative worries, since they are vulnerability factors for the clinical symptoms of anxiety [19].…”

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Providing preoperative information for children undergoing surgery: a randomized study testing different types of educational material to reduce children's preoperative worries

Fernandes

Arriaga

Esteves

2014

Health Education Research

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Hospital Emergency Rooms and Children's Health Care Attitudes

Abstract: Although other research has shown that aversive medical experiences may negatively affect children's attitudes, these findings suggest that the nature of the medical contact is important in how children interpret medically induced pain, which is related to their attitudes.

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

The influence of pain memories on children’s and adolescents’ post-surgical pain experience: A longitudinal dyadic analysis.

The influence of pain memories on children’s and adolescents’ post-surgical pain experience: A longitudinal dyadic analysis.

Childhood Healthcare Experience, Healthcare Attitudes, and Optimism as Predictors of Adolescents’ Healthcare Behavior

Providing preoperative information for children undergoing surgery: a randomized study testing different types of educational material to reduce children's preoperative worries

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