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Distress responses in a routine vaccination context: Relationships to early child school readiness and mental health.
(Children, 2018)
Social and emotional competencies, such as distress regulation, are established in early
childhood and are critical for the development of children’s mental health and wellbeing. Routine
vaccinations in primary care ...
Variability in Infant Acute Pain Responding Meaningfully Obscured By Averaging Pain Responses
(Pain, 2013)
Given the inherent variability in pain responding, using an
"average" pain score may pose serious threats to internal and external
validity of current research findings. Using growth mixture modeling
(GMM), the paper ...
A cross-sectional examination of the relationships between caregiver proximal soothing and infant pain over the first year of life
(Pain, 2013)
Although previous research has examined the relationships between caregiver proximal
soothing and infant pain, there is a paucity of work taking infant age into account, despite the steep
developmental trajectory that ...
Naturalistic Parental Pain Management During Immunizations over the First Year of Life: Observational Norms from the OUCH Cohort
(Pain, 2013)
No research to date has descriptively catalogued what parents
of healthy infants are naturalistically doing to manage their infant's
pain over immunization appointments across the first year of life. This
knowledge, in ...
Developing a Measure of Distress-Promoting Parent Behaviours During Infant Vaccination: Assessing Reliability and Validity
(Canadian Journal of Pain, 2018)
Background: Infants rely on their parents’ sensitive and contingent soothing to support their regulation from pain-related distress. However, despite being of potentially equal or greater import, there has been little focus ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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) ...
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 ...