Accuracy of Children's and Parents' Memory for a Novel Painful Experience (original) (raw)
2000, Pain Research and Management
BACKGROUND: Despite recent progress in understanding memory of pain in adults, the validity of the assumption that these findings extend to children has not been established. Because treatment often is evaluated on the basis of pain recall, it is crucial that the accuracy of pain memories in children be established.OBJECTIVES: To examine children's ability to recall pain intensity and contextual details associated with a novel painful experience. Furthermore, children's memories were compared with those of their parents.SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Twenty-three parent-child dyads were recruited from a sample participating in an earlier study investigating children's responses to the cold pressor test and parents' characterization of the children's responses. Children (age five to 12 years) and parents independently had rated the child's pain using a seven-point Faces Pain Scale. Approximately one year later, they were asked to recall the experience and rate the pain...
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