Development and preliminary testing of a scale to assess pain-related fear in children and adolescents

Journal of Pain

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 840-848

  Huguet, Anna ^a   McGrath, Patrick J ^a   Pardos, Judit ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

assessment; children and adolescents; Fear of pain; pain; Pediatric Pain Fear Scale; psychometric properties

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COGNITION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79961207092     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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