[Contributions of child psychology to the assessment of pain].
The efficacy of pain management is subordinated to the efficacy of pain assessment. Children are particularly difficult-to-assess patients. In this area, child psychology can contribute to the development of tools and to improving pain assessment. This paper highlights the relevance of studies on dialog in pain assessment situations and the importance of the specificity of both the patient and his pain. Assessing pain and listening to the patient's complaint means meeting the child in his own world. Nonetheless, it is necessary to use and develop assessment tools that are scientifically validated.
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Laboratoire de Psychologie des Actions Langagières et Motrices (PALM), Pôle Modélisation en Sciences Cognitives (ModeSCo), Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Université de Caen, Basse-Normandie, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032 Caen Cedex 5, France. marc.zabalia@unicaen.fr
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results