Sex, Gender, and Age: Contributions to Laboratory Pain Responding in Children and Adolescents

Journal of Pain

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 556-564

  Myers, Cynthia D ^a   Tsao, Jennie C I ^b   Glover, Dorie A ^c   Kim, Su C ^b   Turk, Norman ^b   Zeltzer, Lonnie K ^b  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

gender role socialization; laboratory pain; pain intensity; pain tolerance; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENDER IDENTITY; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRESSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EXAMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SOCIALIZATION; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; COLD; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; PRESSURE; PUBERTY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 33746358537     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2006.01.454     Document Type: Article

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