Developmental aspects of children's definitions of pain.
As part of a wider research project aimed at investigating how children think about several aspects of pain, definitions of pain used by 680 Irish schoolchildren aged 5-14 years were examined to see if a developmental pattern could be identified in the acquisition of a verbally mediated concept of pain. The results are consonant with a Piagetian developmental model, suggesting the possibility of delineating typical concepts of pain which correspond to successive stages of cognitive development.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D010465:Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014705:Verbal Behavior