The assessment of pediatric pain coping strtegies may contribute to understand individual differences in pain experience and reaction. The PPCI (Waldron, Varni, 1994) was used to assess the ways of coping in a group of pediatric patients affected by recurrent headache (N= 33) and a control group of healthy children (N= 49), aged from 7 to 13 years. The results showed that the children with headache reported to use significantly more strategies of problem-solving and to emply specific remedies when they are feeling pain, as they developed through their sufferring a more concrete way of coping.
Strategie di coping in soggetti affetti da cefalee primarie in età evolutiva
BONICHINI, SABRINA;
2002
Abstract
The assessment of pediatric pain coping strtegies may contribute to understand individual differences in pain experience and reaction. The PPCI (Waldron, Varni, 1994) was used to assess the ways of coping in a group of pediatric patients affected by recurrent headache (N= 33) and a control group of healthy children (N= 49), aged from 7 to 13 years. The results showed that the children with headache reported to use significantly more strategies of problem-solving and to emply specific remedies when they are feeling pain, as they developed through their sufferring a more concrete way of coping.File in questo prodotto:
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