What you say to your kid before a needle can make it hurt less
Imagine yourself at the doctor?s office bracing for your annual flu shot. Twenty minutes go by, and during that period, your fear escalates and you convince yourself the upcoming shot is going to hurt like hell. Does the expectation influence how it actually feels"
I am a professor of psychology and neuroscience who, together with my colleagues at the National Institutes of Health, decided to explore how a child?s expectation of pain influences their actual experience, particularly anxious children. It is well-established that children are highly impressionable and are easily influenced by social media, their friends, and what they watch on television. The question of whether children, like adults, are influenced by expectations has not been studied in a systematic way. Our goal was to understand the effects of expectation on preparing children for upcoming painful procedures to inform treatment of pediatric pain in anxious patients. We suspected that if children expected pain, that?s how they would perceive it. We designed an experiment to test it.
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