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Predicting Maternal and Behavioural Measures of Infant Pain: The Relative Contribution of Maternal Factors
(Pain, 2007)
The Sociocommunication Model of Infant Pain (Craig and Pillai Riddell, 2003) theorizes that
maternal variables influence the pained infant and that the pained infant reciprocally influences maternal
responses to the ...
A longitudinal examination of verbal reassurance during infant immunization: Occurrence and examination of emotional availability as a potential moderator
(Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2012)
OBJECTIVE:
This study investigated the associations between caregiver verbal reassurance and infant pain-related distress during immunization over the first year of life. The relationships between verbal reassurance and ...
The influence of culture on maternal soothing behaviours and infant pain expression in the immunization context.
(Pain and Research Management, 2011)
ObJecTiVe: To investigate how maternal culture (ie, individualist versus
collectivist) influences soothing techniques and infant distress.
MeThOdS: Archival data were analyzed using a subsample of 80 motherinfant
dyads ...
The role of infant pain behaviour in predicting parent pain ratings
(Pain and Research Management, 2014)
BACKGROUND: Research investigating how observers empathize or
form estimations of an individual experiencing pain suggests that both
characteristics of the observer (‘top down’) and characteristics of the individual
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 ...
Toy-mediated distraction: Clarifying the role of the agent of distraction and pre-needle distress
(Pain and Research Management, 2013)
BaCkGRound: Distraction has recently gained attention as a technique
that may help reduce acute pain in infants and toddlers; however,
results remain equivocal. It appears that these mixed results stem from a
variety ...
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 ...
Infant pain-regulation as an early predictor of childhood temperament
(2013)
BACKGROUND: There is considerable variability in infants’ responses
to painful stimuli, including facial and vocal expressions. This variability
in pain-related distress response may be an indicator of temperament ...
Preschool children’s coping responses and outcomes in the vaccination context: child and caregiver transactional and longitudinal relationships
(Wolters Kluwer, 2017)
This article, based on 2 companion studies, presents an in-depth analysis of preschoolers coping with vaccination pain. Study 1 used an autoregressive cross-lagged path model to investigate the dynamic and reciprocal ...
Predicting preschool pain-related anticipatory distress: the relative contribution of longitudinal and concurrent factors
(Pain, 2016)
Anticipatory distress prior to a painful medical procedure can lead to negative sequelae
including heightened pain experiences, avoidance of future medical procedures, and
potential non-compliance with preventative ...