RT Journal Article
T1 Assessing Pain Anxiety in Adolescents: Further Evidence for the Utility of the Child Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale.
A1 Sánchez-Rodríguez, Elisabet
A1 Tomé-Pires, Catarina
A1 Castarlenas, Elena
A1 de la Vega, Rocío
A1 Galán, Santiago
A1 Jensen, Mark
A1 Miró, Jordi
K1 Dolor - Aspectos psicológicos
K1 Adolescentes - Psicología
AB AbstractObjectives: Emotional responses to pain are known to play an important role in the development and maintenance of pain. To better understand the role that pain anxiety plays in chronic pain, as well as to evaluate treatments that might treat it effectively, reliable and valid measures of pain anxiety are needed. Thus, the aim of this study was to provide additional evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the Child Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (CPASS) in a sample of adolescents.Methods: A total of 357 adolescents ages 12 to 19 years completed measures of pain anxiety (CPASS), pain-related catastrophizing (PCS-C), anxiety sensitivity (CASI), and sleep quality (NRS-Sleep). We used confirmatory factor analyses to evaluate the factor structure of CPASS items. We also tested the reliability and the validity of CPASS scores.Results: Confirmatory factor analyses suggested a 4-factor structure with a single higher-order factor (CFI=0.91, TLI=0.95, RMSEA=0.078). The total score of CPASS showed good internal consistency (α=0.87) and adequate validity as evidenced by (1) moderate to high correlations between CPASS-PCS-C (r=0.74, P<0.001) and CPASS-CASI (r=0.48, P<0.001) and (2) the magnitude of the correlations between CPASS-PCS-C and CPASS-CASI being significantly greater than that between CPASS and NRS-Sleep (z=14.70 and 8.96, respectively; P<0.001).Discussion: The findings support the reliability and the validity of CPASS as a measure of pain-related anxiety in adolescents.
PB Wolters Kluwer Health
YR 2016
FD 2016-01-13
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/44905
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/44905
LA eng
NO Sánchez-Rodríguez E, Tomé-Pires C, Castarlenas E, de la Vega R, Galán S, Jensen MP, Miró J. Assessing Pain Anxiety in Adolescents: Further Evidence for the Utility of the Child Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale. Clin J Pain. 2016 Dec;32(12):1094-1099. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000357. PMID: 26889622.
NO https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/8945?from=single_hit
NO Obra Social de Caixabank
NO the Spanish Ministry of Science
NO RecerCaixa
NO Universitat Rovira i Virgili
NO Spanish Ministry of Science and Competitiveness
NO Institucio´ Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ats
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 28 feb 2026