Acceptability of interventions for pediatric pain management.

Examined the effects of pain symptom severity and patient diagnostic status on pediatric staffs' acceptability ratings of 6 interventions used to treat pediatric pain. Results indicated that (a) extinction was significantly less acceptable than all other behavioral and pharmacologic interventions, (b) self-management was more acceptable than all other interventions with the exception of contingency management, (c) accelerative procedures and self-management interventions were preferred to pharmacologic treatment, (d) patient diagnostic status and pain symptom severity failed to significantly influence treatment ratings, (e) self-management was the only intervention differentially rated as a function of pain symptom severity, and (f) pharmacologic treatment was differentially rated as a function of patient diagnostic status.