Pain-Related Stigma and Its Associations With Clinical and Experimental Pain Severity in Youth With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Conditions.
Nicholas R BoileauKathryn A Thompson-PhillipsBurel R GoodinMary K Lynch-MilderCorinne T EvansTolulope AdetayoArionna F RudolphMatthew L StollPeter WeiserAaron D FobianMarissa A GoweyEmily O WakefieldPublished in: Journal of pediatric psychology (2023)
Youth with medically unexplained pain report greater stigma and worse pain than their peers; thus, robust assessment of pain in this population is necessary. Future work should longitudinally explore the impact of pain-related stigma on pain outcomes and treatment responses.