Pain coping and catastrophizing in youth with and without cerebral palsy

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the use of pain coping strategies and pain catastrophizing in youth with and without cerebral palsy (CP), and to examine how these two groups differ with respect to the associations between pain coping, catastrophizing, and measures of psychological function and sleep disturbance.

Keywords

• cerebral palsy
• pain
• coping
• catastrophizing
• psychological function