Caregiver beliefs underlying infant pain judgments: Contrasts of parents, nurses and paediatricians

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dc.contributor.authorPillai Riddell, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorHorton, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorHillgrove-Stuart, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorCraig, Kenneth
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-29T16:41:23Z
dc.date.available2018-03-29T16:41:23Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Research suggests that caregivers’ beliefs pertaining to infant pain and which infant pain cues are perceived to be important play an integral role in pediatric pain assessment and management. OBJECTIVES: Following a recent quasi-experimental study reporting on caregiver background and age differences in actual infant pain judgments, the present study clarified these findings by analyzing caregivers’ pain beliefs and the cues they use to make pain assessments, and by examining how the wording of belief questions influenced caregivers’ responses. METHODS: After making pain judgments based on video footage of infants between two and 18 months of age receiving immunizations, parents, nurses and pediatricians were required to respond to questionnaires regarding pain beliefs and importance of cues. RESULTS: Parents generally differed from pediatricians. Parents tended to have less optimal beliefs regarding medicating the youngest infants, were more influenced by question wording, and reported using many more cues when judging older infants than other caregiver groups. In terms of beliefs, influence of question wording and cue use, nurses tended to fall in between both groups; they displayed similarities to both parents and pediatricians. CONCLUSIONS: Paralleling the original findings on pain judgments, these findings suggest that parents differ from pediatricians in their pain beliefs and the cues they use to make pain judgments. Moreover, some similarities were found between parents and nurses, and between nurses and pediatricians. Finally, caution must be taken when interpreting research pertaining to beliefs about infant pain because question wording appears to influence interpretation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPillai Riddell, R., Horton, R., Hillgrove, J., & Craig K. D. (2008). Caregiver beliefs underlying infant pain judgments: Contrasts of parents, nurses and paediatricians. Journal of Pain Research and Management. 13(6), 214-220.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2008/694745en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34443
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPain and Research Managementen_US
dc.subjectbeliefsen_US
dc.subjectcaregiveren_US
dc.subjectinfanten_US
dc.subjectjudgementen_US
dc.subjectpainen_US
dc.titleCaregiver beliefs underlying infant pain judgments: Contrasts of parents, nurses and paediatricians
dc.typeArticleen_US

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