A recent study suggests that the behavior of the family can influence how children cope with pain. researchers evaluated what they termed as catastrophic pain, or an exaggerated negative mental state in response to actual or anticipated pain. The study included 100 people with chronic pain, 85 of their spouses and 100 first-born adult children.
They found that pain scores of parents predicted catastrophic results of their adult children, regardless of the actual level of pain experienced by adult patients, "wrote Suzy Kraljevic, Split University Hospital, and colleagues.
"Since childhood parents are a model to imitate the children, it is possible for children to use the social and communication tools they have observed in their parents to manage their own distress in a similar context, "the researchers concluded." Families may develop a specific cognitive style to manage the pain. "
The study appears in the online edition of the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
Source International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
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