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OBJECTIVE: To discuss the numerous psychological barriers to optimum pain relief in infants, children, and adolescents. DATA SOURCES: The professional and scientific literature on pediatric pain was accessed by means of Psychlit and Medline searches.…

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether typical pain behavior, as reported by caregivers, could be used prospectively to predict future pain behavior and to derive a subset of core items from the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist. STUDY DESIGN:…

Our knowledge of the prevalence and sources of pain within hospital is limited. The present study is an epidemiological investigation of pain in a pediatric hospital. All children who were inpatients in a tertiary care hospital (excluding Neonatal…

BACKGROUND: Children with severe cognitive impairments are believed to suffer pain frequently. OBJECTIVE: To document the frequency, duration, and intensity of pain experienced by children with severe cognitive impairments. DESIGN: Cohort study using…

A previous study found that parents of communicatively impaired children with severe cognitive impairments identified six core cues as indicating definite or severe pain in their child (J. Pediatr. Psychol. 27 (2002) 209). The frequency of each cue…

BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Non-communicating Children's Pain Checklist-Postoperative Version (NCCPC-PV) when used with children with severe intellectual disabilities. METHODS: The caregivers of 24 children…

Pain assessment is a difficult task for parents at home following children's surgery. The purpose of the present study was to confirm the psychometric properties of a behavioural measure of postoperative pain developed to assist parents with pain…

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