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Journal of Pediatric Psychology 14(3) pp. 463-472, 1989
© 1989 Society of Pediatric Psychology

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Acceptability of Interventions for Pediatric Pain Management1

Kenneth J. Tarnowski2, Mary Pat Gavaghan and Jack J. Wisniewski

Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, and MetroHealth Medical Center, Columbus Children's Hospital

2All correspondence should be sent to Kenneth J. Tarnowski, Department of Pediatrics, Metro-Health Medical Center, 3395 Scranton Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44109

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.

Key words: treatment acceptability; behavioral pediatrics; pediatric pain; behavioral interventions.


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