Adolescents of parents with chronic pain whose parents were 'shut off' report more hardship and feelings of distance than those with a more open relationship

摘要

Umberger and colleagues sought to develop a theory of how adolescents experienced the process of living with a parent who had chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP). Their findings expand current understanding of how children and adolescents cope and adapt during the critical developmental stage of adolescence. The study also sheds light on the characteristics that relate to coping mechanisms (shrouding) of the parent with chronic pain and coping (shrouding) strategies of the developing adolescent. Although some adolescents experienced a parent-child role reversal, this was not the main social process described by the majority of participants. Whereas other studies focused only on mothers with chronic pain,2 4 a strength of this study was the inclusion of the adolescents' fathers with chronic pain.