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Assessing Pain in Infancy: The Caregiver Context

Author(s) -

Rebecca Pillai Riddell,

Nicole Racine

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

pain research and management

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702

H-Index - 56

eISSN - 1918-1523

pISSN - 1203-6765

DOI - 10.1155/2009/410725

Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , distress , caregiver stress , pain catastrophizing , psychology , developmental psychology , social environment , mental health , infant mental health , clinical psychology , chronic pain , medicine , psychiatry , disease , paleontology , dementia , pathology , political science , law , biology

Pain is largely accepted as being influenced by social context. Unlike most other developmental stages throughout the lifespan, infancy is marked by complete dependence on the caregiver. The present paper discusses the primary importance of understanding the caregiver context when assessing infant pain expression.

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