Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-5010, USA.
J Pediatr Psychol. 2012 Jul;37(6):680-6. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jss041. Epub 2012 May 22.
Data suggest parents' preprocedural anxiety is related to children's acute procedural anxiety and pain. This study examined the temporal relations among these constructs to determine whether children's anxiety mediates the relation between parents' anticipatory anxiety and children's procedural pain.
A total of 90 preschoolers receiving immunizations, their parents, and the nurses rated children's procedural anxiety and pain. Parents provided ratings of their own preprocedural anxiety.
Bootstrapping analyses revealed that children's procedural anxiety mediated the relation between parents' preprocedural anxiety and children's procedural pain according to parents' report and nurses' report but not children's self-report of anxiety and pain.
Analyses suggest that children's procedural anxiety mediates the relation between parents' anticipatory anxiety and children's procedural pain. Thus, targeting parents' preprocedural anxiety might be beneficial to the parents as well as the children undergoing a distressing medical procedure.
数据表明，父母术前焦虑与儿童急性手术焦虑和疼痛有关。本研究考察了这些结构之间的时间关系，以确定儿童的焦虑是否在父母的预期焦虑与儿童手术疼痛之间起中介作用。
共有 90 名接受免疫接种的学龄前儿童、他们的父母和护士对儿童的手术焦虑和疼痛进行了评估。父母提供了自己术前焦虑的评分。
Bootstrapping 分析显示，根据父母报告和护士报告，儿童的手术焦虑在父母术前焦虑与儿童手术疼痛之间起中介作用，但根据儿童对焦虑和疼痛的自我报告则不然。
分析表明，儿童的手术焦虑在父母的预期焦虑与儿童的手术疼痛之间起中介作用。因此，针对父母的术前焦虑可能对经历痛苦医疗程序的父母和儿童都有益。
