Open Access“There’s Nothing Wrong With You”: Pain-Related Stigma in Adolescents With Chronic Pain
Author(s) -
Emily O Wakefield,
Vaishali Belamkar,
Mark D. Litt,
Rebecca M. Puhl,
William T. Zempsky
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pediatric psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.054
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1465-735X
pISSN - 0146-8693
DOI - 10.1093/jpepsy/jsab122
Subject(s) - chronic pain , stigma (botany) , focus group , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , pain catastrophizing , social stigma , population , medicine , family medicine , business , environmental health , marketing , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
Adolescents with chronic pain often experience symptom disbelief and social rejection by others secondary to "medically unexplained" symptoms. Although chronic pain is common in adolescents, limited research has conceptualized these social experiences as pain-related stigma in this population. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe pain-related stigma among adolescents with chronic pain and their parents using focus group methodology.