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Article

Do Parental Pain Knowledge, Catastrophizing, and Hypervigilance Improve Following Pain Neuroscience Education in Healthy Children?

by
Pere Bacardit Pintó
1,
Kelly Ickmans
1,2,3,*,
Emma Rheel
1,4,
Margot Iwens
1,
Mira Meeus
5,6,7,
Jo Nijs
1,2,8 and
Roselien Pas
1,6
1
Pain in Motion Research Group (PAIN), Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy (KIMA), Faculty of Physical Education & Physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussels, Belgium
2
Department of Physical Medicine and Physiotherapy, University Hospital Brussels, 1090 Brussel, Belgium
3
Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO), Egmontstraat 5, 1000 Brussel, Belgium
4
Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Gent, Belgium
5
Pain in Motion International Research Group
6
MOVANT Research Group, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp (UA), 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
7
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Campus UZ, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
8
Unit of Physiotherapy, Department of Health and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Children 2021, 8(5), 420; https://doi.org/10.3390/children8050420
Submission received: 25 March 2021 / Revised: 17 May 2021 / Accepted: 17 May 2021 / Published: 20 May 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation)
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Abstract

Pediatric chronic pain is a challenging problem for children and their families, although it is still under-recognized and under-treated. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a pain neuroscience education program for children (PNE4Kids) delivered to healthy children aged 8 to 12 years old and attended by their parents would result in improved parental knowledge about pain neurophysiology, decreased parental pain catastrophizing about their own pain and their children’s, decreased parental pain vigilance and awareness, and decreased fear of pain in children. Twenty-seven healthy child–parent dyads received a 45 min PNE4Kids session. Demographic data were collected, and the Neurophysiology of Pain Questionnaire (NPQ), Fear of Pain Questionnaire—Parent Proxy Report (FOPQ-P), Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Parents (PCS-P), and the Pain Vigilance and Awareness Questionnaire (PVAQ) were completed by the parents before and after the PNE4Kids session. Twenty-six dyads completed study participation. In response to the PNE4Kids session, significant short-term (1 week) improvements were shown in the NPQ (p < 0.001) and the FOPQ-P (p = 0.002). Parents’ level of pain knowledge and children’s fear of pain, reported by their parents, improved after a 45 min PNE4Kids session. Thus, PNE4Kids should likewise be further investigated in healthy child–parent dyads as it might be useful to target parental and children’s pain cognitions at a young age.
Keywords: pain neuroscience education; healthy children; parents; pain knowledge; fear of pain; pain catastrophizing pain neuroscience education; healthy children; parents; pain knowledge; fear of pain; pain catastrophizing

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Bacardit Pintó, P.; Ickmans, K.; Rheel, E.; Iwens, M.; Meeus, M.; Nijs, J.; Pas, R. Do Parental Pain Knowledge, Catastrophizing, and Hypervigilance Improve Following Pain Neuroscience Education in Healthy Children? Children 2021, 8, 420. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8050420

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Bacardit Pintó P, Ickmans K, Rheel E, Iwens M, Meeus M, Nijs J, Pas R. Do Parental Pain Knowledge, Catastrophizing, and Hypervigilance Improve Following Pain Neuroscience Education in Healthy Children? Children. 2021; 8(5):420. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8050420

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Bacardit Pintó, Pere, Kelly Ickmans, Emma Rheel, Margot Iwens, Mira Meeus, Jo Nijs, and Roselien Pas. 2021. "Do Parental Pain Knowledge, Catastrophizing, and Hypervigilance Improve Following Pain Neuroscience Education in Healthy Children?" Children 8, no. 5: 420. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8050420

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Bacardit Pintó, P., Ickmans, K., Rheel, E., Iwens, M., Meeus, M., Nijs, J., & Pas, R. (2021). Do Parental Pain Knowledge, Catastrophizing, and Hypervigilance Improve Following Pain Neuroscience Education in Healthy Children? Children, 8(5), 420. https://doi.org/10.3390/children8050420

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