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Biobehavioral Responses to Acute Pain in Adolescents with a Significant Neurologic Impairment
Biobehavioral Responses to Acute Pain in Adolescents with a Significant Neurologic Impairment
- Source :
- The Clinical Journal of Pain. 15:201-209
- Publication Year :
- 1999
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1999.
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Abstract
- To further understand acute pain response in children with a significant neurologic impairment (SNI), we undertook a descriptive hypothesis-generating study of the response to a routine vaccine among adolescents with SNI.Within-subject crossover design.Tertiary care facility for children and adolescents with SNI.Eight adolescents (mean age = 15 years).Mock and real vaccine injections.Quantitative measures of heart rate, videotaped facial action, Child Facial Coding System (CFCS), and Facial Action Coding System (FACS); observer ratings visual analog scale (VAS) were obtained before, during, and after a mock injection and routine annual influenza vaccine injection presented in a counterbalanced order.VAS scores were significantly higher during the injection phase than during the other time periods; however, there were no significant differences across study time periods when using the other outcome measures.Although the dampened behavioral and physiologic reactions to an acute noxious stimulus were similar to those of previous work with developmentally delayed children and frail elderly, it remains unclear what underlies the apparent reduced pain response in this setting. These findings have potentially important implications for the daily care of individuals with significant neurologic impairment and illustrate the compelling need tor further study of the unique character of the pain experience in this setting.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
SNi
Adolescent
Pain
Quadriplegia
Tertiary care
Heart Rate
Heart rate
Humans
Medicine
Acute pain
Pain Measurement
Cross-Over Studies
business.industry
Vaccination
Crossover study
Facial Expression
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Adolescent Behavior
Acute Disease
Physical therapy
Female
Neurology (clinical)
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 07498047
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Clinical Journal of Pain
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....24aa63bee04d7199c6f7c5f0f6f3841c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00002508-199909000-00007