Open AccessPain-Related Injustice Appraisals in Youth with Sickle Cell Disease: A Preliminary Investigation
Author(s) -
Megan M. Miller,
Deanna Rumble,
Adam T. Hirsh,
Tine Vervoort,
Lori E. Crosby,
Avi MadanSwain,
Jeffrey D. Lebensburger,
Anna Hood,
Zina Trost
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnab001
Subject(s) - pain catastrophizing , anxiety , medicine , disease , injustice , depression (economics) , chronic pain , quality of life (healthcare) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , physical therapy , psychology , social psychology , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic disorder that affects approximately 100,000 Americans, the majority of whom are African American. SCD-related pain often has deleterious effects on functioning and quality of life. The inherited nature of SCD, SCD-related stigma, and serious physical and functional impact of SCD-related pain create a situation ripe for individuals to appraise their SCD-related pain as unfair or unjust. The aim of this preliminary investigation is to explore the extent to which pediatric patients with SCD appraise their pain as unjust and how these appraisals relate to functioning.