Parents' Initial Perceptions of Multidisciplinary Care for Pediatric Chronic Pain

Abstract

Chronic and recurrent pain is experienced by many children and adolescents. Treatment of chronic pain using a multidisciplinary approach has been found to be effective for treatment of chronic pain. Parent satisfaction with treatment and treatment providers highly correlates to children's treatment adherence. Parents of children treated at a multidisciplinary chronic pain clinic were interviewed following their initial appointment. Parents reported high satisfaction with treatment team members and with the treatment plan. Parents also reported appreciation of multidisciplinary structure, the high level of expertise of the team members, and the team members' genuine interest in treating their children. This increase in satisfaction when compared to previous treatment is important since increases in satisfaction may correlate with a reduction in experiences of chronic pain. Parents reported high satisfaction with interactions with treatment team members and with the treatment plan provided for their children. Parents had appreciation of multidisciplinary team structure and the high level of expertise of the team members. This increase in satisfaction when compared to treatment from previous providers is important since increases in satisfaction may correlate with an increase in children's treatment adherence and a reduction in experiences of chronic pain.

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“…When contextualizing our study, the sample characteristics present many similarities (e.g., sex, socioeconomic status, and marital status) to other qualitative studies in the field. 16,[26][27][28][29][30][31] Although small, our sample size is also consistent with previous studies using inductive reflexive thematic analysis, 8,32,33 those using qualitative methodology in the field of pediatric chronic pain, [8][9][10]21,[34][35][36][37] and those using timelines as the data collection approach. [38][39][40][41][42] Our participants represented the diversity we aimed to achieve by our targeted sampling strategy.…”

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“…As a consequence, high parental satisfaction rates have an important correlation with the child's adherence to treatment and with the reduction of occurrences of pain crisis. 23 Teamwork was configured as a strategy for interaction and action for healthcare, while it is also a way of articulating actions, integrating the agents, overcoming the isolation of knowledge and democratizing the labor relations. 24 Such a way is related to the idea of complexity, since it entails in itself a relation of complementarity and interdependence among the different types of knowledge and practices that permeate care.…”

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“…Įvairių tyrimų duomenimis patvirtinta, kad daugiadalykis požiūris į lėtinio skausmo gydymą daug efektyvesnis ne tik dėl gydymo rezultatų, bet ir duoda didelę ekonominę naudą [59], be to, labiau priimtinas tėvams ir ligoniams [60].…”