Browsing by Author "Brookes, James T."

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    Role of anxiety in young children's pain memory development after surgery
    (International Association for the Study of Pain, 2019-04) Fischer, Shanaya; Vinall, Jillian; Pavlova, Maria; Graham, Susan; Jordan, Abbie; Chorney, Jill; Rasic, Nivez F.; Brookes, James T.; Hoy, Monica Y.; Yunker, Warren K.; Noel, Melanie
    Pediatric pain is common, and memory for it may be distressing and have long-lasting effects. Children who develop more negatively biased memories for pain (i.e., recalled pain is higher than initial pain report) are at risk of worse future pain outcomes. In adolescent samples, higher child and parent catastrophic thinking about pain was associated with negatively biased memories for post-surgical pain. This study examined the influence of child and parent anxiety on the development of younger children's post-surgical pain memories. Seventy-eight children undergoing a tonsillectomy and one of their parents participated. Parents reported on their anxiety (state and trait) before surgery, and trained researchers observationally-coded children's anxiety at anaesthesia induction. Children reported on their post-surgical pain intensity and pain-related fear for 3 days after discharge. One month after surgery, children recalled their pain intensity and pain-related fear using the same scales previously administered. Results revealed that higher levels of post-surgical pain and higher parent trait anxiety predicted more negatively biased memories for pain-related fear. Parent state anxiety and child preoperative anxiety were not associated with children's recall. Children who developed negatively biased pain memories had worse post-surgical pain several days after surgery. These findings underscore the importance of reducing parental anxiety and effective post-surgical pain management to potentially buffer against the development of negatively biased pain memories in young children.
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    Socialization of Pain Memories: Parent-Child Reminiscing About Past Painful and Sad Events
    (Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Pediatric Psychology : Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 2019-01) Pavlova, Maria; Graham, Susan; Jordan, Abbie; Chorney, Jill; Vinall, Jillian; Rasic, Nivez F.; Brookes, James T.; Hoy, Monica Y.; Yunker, Warren K.; Noel, Melanie
    Parent-child reminiscing about past negative events has been linked to a host of developmental outcomes. Previous research has identified two distinct between-parent reminiscing styles, wherein parents who are more elaborative (vs. repetitive) have children with more optimal outcomes. To date, however, research has not examined how parents and children talk about past painful experiences nor compared parent-child reminiscing about past painful versus other distressing events despite key developmental differences in how young children respond to pain versus sadness in others. This study aimed to fill that gap.