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Parent-led interventions in reducing infant vaccination pain after participation in a longitudinal randomized control trial
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The ABCDs of Pain Management: A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Impact of a Brief Educational Video on Infants’ and Toddlers’ Pain Scores and Parent Soothing Behavior
(Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2017-11)Objectives To test the efficacy of a brief behavioral pain management strategy (The ABCDs of Needle Pain Management), delivered via video, on infants’ and toddlers’ pain scores and on parental soothing behavior. Methods ... -
Understanding the Relative Contributions of Sensitive and Insensitive Parent Behaviors on Infant Vaccination Pain
(Children, 2018-06)Parents play a critical role in supporting infants’ ability to manage strong emotions. Routine vaccinations provide an ideal context to observe the effect of parents’ behaviors on infants’ pain-related distress. Previous ... -
Parental Psychological Distress Moderates the Impact of a Video Intervention to Help Parents Manage Young Child Vaccination Pain
(Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2018-08)Objective: The current study sets out to conduct a post hoc analysis of the moderating effect of parent psychological distress on a pediatric pain management intervention. Methods: Parents of 6-month-old infants (n = 64) ... -
Pain in Child Health from 2002 to 2015: The Early Years of an International Research Training Initiative
(Canadian Journal of Pain, 2019-01)Background: The 2018 Global Year for Excellence in Pain Education, an initiative of the International Association for the Study of Pain, brought worldwide attention to the need for education that crosses narrow disciplinary ... -
Non-Pharmacological Pain Management in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Managing neonatal pain without drugs
(Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2019-05)Premature infants hospitalized after birth are exposed to repeated painful procedures as part of their routine medical care. Early neonatal exposure to unmanaged pain has been linked to numerous negative long-term outcomes, ... -
Parental Report of Self and Child Worry During Acute Pain: A Critical Factor in Determining Parental Pain Judgment
(Clinical Journal of Pain, 2019-05)Objective: The objective of this study was to determine which variables predict parental postvaccination pain ratings. It was hypothesized that after child behavior, parental sensitivity, and parental reports of worry would ... -
Age Related Differences in the Acute Pain Facial Expression During Infancy
(European Journal of Pain, 2019-06)Background Oster's (2005) ontogenetic perspective on the development of emotional expressions in infants holds that infants’ facial and vocal expressions evolved to serve crucial communicative functions in infancy and ... -
Does exposure to university researchers improve undergraduate perceptions of research?: A quasi cluster-randomized controlled trial
(Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2019-08)This study explores the impact of talks by university researchers in different formats on students’ perceptions of research. Undergraduate students (N = 222) were randomly assigned to watch research talks via video recording ... -
Quantification of neonatal procedural pain severity: a platform for estimating total pain burden in individual infants
(Pain, 2020-01)There is increasing evidence that long-term outcomes for infants born prematurely are adversely affected by repeated exposure to noxious procedures. These interventions vary widely, for example, in the extent of damage ... -
An examination of the reciprocal and concurrent relations between behavioral and cardiac indicators of acute pain in toddlerhood
(Pain, 2020-01)The aim of this study was to examine the concurrent and predictive relations between healthy toddlers’ pain behavior and cardiac indicators (i.e., heart rate [HR], respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]) during routine ... -
Corrigendum to “Non-pharmacological pain management in the neonatal intensive care unit: Managing neonatal pain without drugs”
(Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine, 2020-02)Premature infants hospitalized after birth are exposed to repeated painful procedures as part of their routine medical care. Early neonatal exposure to unmanaged pain has been linked to numerous negative long-term outcomes, ... -
Opioid Exposure and Cognitive Development: Unpacking Clinical Relevance
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Convergence of behavioral and cardiac indicators of distress in toddlerhood: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
(International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020-06)The objective of the current study was to systematically review the available literature on the relation between behavioral and cardiac indicators used to measure distress in toddlerhood. After ascertaining the eligibility ... -
Pavlovianism in China: Politics and differentiation across scientific disciplines in the Maoist era
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Sexual communal motivation in couples coping with low sexual interest/arousal: Associations with sexual well-being and sexual goals
(PLOS, 2019-07-17)Women coping with female sexual interest/arousal disorder (FSIAD) report lower sexual and relationship satisfaction compared to healthy controls. In community samples, high sexual communal strength (i.e., the motivation ... -
The fast contribution of visual-proprioceptive discrepancy to reach aftereffects and proprioceptive recalibration
(PLOS, 2018-07-17)Adapting reaches to altered visual feedback not only leads to motor changes, but also to shifts in perceived hand location; “proprioceptive recalibration”. These changes are robust to many task variations and can occur ... -
What image features guide lightness perception?
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2018-12-04)Lightness constancy is the ability to perceive black and white surface colors under a wide range of lighting conditions. This fundamental visual ability is not well understood, and current theories differ greatly on what ... -
Space and time in episodic memory: Effects of linearity and directionality on memory for spatial location and temporal order in children and adults
(PLOS, 2018-11-08)Episodic memory is a critical capacity that involves remembering past events along with their spatial and temporal contexts. Relatively little is known about the relations between spatial and temporal information in long-term ... -
Associations between mother-preschooler attachment and maternal depression symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(PLOS, 2018-10-02)The current study aimed to systematically review and meta-analyze concurrent and longitudinal associations between maternal depression symptoms and mother-child attachment during the preschool period (aged 2 to 7 years) ...
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