Kaasbøll Jannike, Ranøyen Ingunn, Nilsen Wendy, Lydersen Stian, Indredavik Marit S
Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare (RKBU) of Central Norway, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Postbox 8905, Medisinsk teknisk forskningssenter (MTFS), N-7491, Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Child Development and Mental Health, Division of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PO Box 4404, Nydalen, 0403, Oslo, Norway.
BMC Public Health. 2015 Aug 22;15:817. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-2164-9.
Parental chronic pain has been associated with adverse outcomes in offspring. However, knowledge on individual and family resilience factors in adolescent offspring of chronic pain sufferers is scarce. This study thus aimed to investigate the associations between parental chronic pain and self-esteem, social competence, and family cohesion levels reported by adolescent girls and boys.
Based on cross-sectional surveys from the Nord Trøndelag Health Study (the HUNT 3 study), the study used independent self-reports from adolescents aged 13 to 18 years (n = 3227) and their parents and conducted separate linear regression analyses for girls and boys.
Concurrent maternal and paternal chronic pain was associated with reduced self-esteem, social competence, and family cohesion in girls. Moreover, maternal chronic pain was associated with higher social competence in boys and reduced self-esteem in girls. The majority of the observed associations were significantly different between girls and boys. Paternal chronic pain was not found to be associated with child outcomes.
The findings indicate that the presence of both maternal and paternal chronic pain could be a potential risk factor for lower levels of individual and family resilience factors reported by girls. Further research on the relationship between parental pain and sex-specific offspring characteristics, including positive resilience factors, is warranted. The study demonstrates the importance of targeting the entire family in chronic pain care.
父母的慢性疼痛与子女的不良后果有关。然而，关于慢性疼痛患者青春期子女的个人和家庭复原力因素的知识却很匮乏。因此，本研究旨在调查父母慢性疼痛与青少年女孩和男孩报告的自尊、社交能力和家庭凝聚力水平之间的关联。
基于北特伦德拉格健康研究（HUNT 3研究）的横断面调查，本研究采用了13至18岁青少年（n = 3227）及其父母的独立自我报告，并分别对女孩和男孩进行了线性回归分析。
母亲和父亲同时患有慢性疼痛与女孩的自尊、社交能力和家庭凝聚力下降有关。此外，母亲的慢性疼痛与男孩较高的社交能力和女孩较低的自尊有关。观察到的大多数关联在女孩和男孩之间存在显著差异。未发现父亲的慢性疼痛与子女的结果有关。
研究结果表明，母亲和父亲同时患有慢性疼痛可能是女孩报告的个人和家庭复原力因素水平较低的潜在风险因素。有必要进一步研究父母疼痛与特定性别的子女特征之间的关系，包括积极的复原力因素。该研究证明了在慢性疼痛护理中关注整个家庭的重要性。
