Directing attention away from pain in children and adolescents: an experimental approach

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION PART I: Exploring distraction beliefs CHAPTER 1: Young people’s beliefs about attentional strategies to control pain: The impact of pain characteristics and pain catastrophizing PART II: Towards a distraction paradigm CHAPTER 2: The effectiveness of distraction examined in two experimental pilot studies using the cold pressor task (CPT) PART III: The influencing role of pain catastrophizing in the effectiveness of distraction CHAPTER 3: The role of motivation and pain catastrophizing in directing attention away from pain: An experimental study CHAPTER 4: The role of pain catastrophizing in directing attention away from pain in schoolchildren PART IV: The influencing role of executive functioning in the effectiveness of distraction CHAPTER 5: Distraction from pain and executive functioning: An experimental investigation of the role of inhibition, task switching and working memory CHAPTER 6: The role of executive functioning in children’s attentional pain control: An experimental analysis GENERAL DISCUSSION NEDERLANDSTALIGE SAMENVATTINGnrpages: 269status: publishe