Resilience Factors in Pain Management for Children and Adolescents: Understanding Mechanisms and Enhancing Outcomes
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 34
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: pain; rehabilitation; resilience
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Resilience is a growing area of research in pediatric pain, especially as chronic pain in children and adolescents may significantly impact development, mental health, and quality of life. Although most research on resilience factors in pediatric pain comes from the chronic pain field, resilience plays a role from the very onset of pain, influencing the pain trajectory, and may, thus, counteract the transition from acute to chronic pain. Several resilience factors have been identified, such as psychological flexibility, parental support, social connectedness, and self-efficacy. However, too little is known about how resilience factors evolve over time and across cultures, the influence of family- and peer-dynamics, their biopsychosocial integration, and, lastly, how resilience can be promoted to enhance outcomes in pediatric pain.
For this Special Issue, we welcome papers exploring tool development to assess the unique resilience profiles in children and adolescents to be matched with targeted interventions; intervention optimization studies tailoring resilience interventions to match the specific needs of children and adolescents to enhance outcomes; mechanistic studies investigating how resilience factors work, including mediators and moderators, as well as the dynamic and contextual aspects of resilience; and implementation studies focusing on the integration of resilience-building programs in real-world settings to prevent mental health problems and promote mental health in children and adolescents. Longitudinal and cross-cultural studies, as well as studies adopting Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), are particularly welcome as contributions to increase knowledge in this field.
Dr. Jenny Thorsell Cederberg
Dr. Rikard Wicksell
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pediatric pain
- resilience
- children and adolescents
- mechanisms of change
- outcome enhancement
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