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Papers: 28 Dec 2019 - 3 Jan 2020
RESEARCH TYPE:
Psychology
Human Studies
2020 Apr
Eur J Pain
24
4
Children of individuals with chronic pain have an increased vulnerability to experience pain problems, possibly through observation of pain in their parents. As pain-related fear (PRF) is a critical factor in the development and maintenance of chronic pain, the current experimental study examined the acquisition of PRF through observational learning and subsequent extinction after first-hand experience of the feared stimulus.