Don't judge a book by its cover: Exploring low self-reported distress and repressive coping in a pediatric chronic pain population.

Repression has been linked to greater illness, somatic symptoms, and poorer physical health, both in adult and pediatric populations. The current study examined psychological and pain profiles of children with chronic pain who may under-report levels of psychological distress at a first interdisciplinary chronic pain assessment. Children and their caregiver completed measures of psychopathology and pain intensity, while clinicians rated their levels of disability.

'Teenagers are into perfect-looking things': Dating, sexual attitudes and experiences of adolescents with severe obesity.

Background: This qualitative study explored the dating and sexual health attitudes and behaviours among adolescents with severe obesity (body mass index [BMI] > 99th%) attending a multidisciplinary weight-management programme.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 participants (12 females, 7 males; M  = 16.8) and analysed through reflective thematic analysis.

Mental effort and discomfort: Testing the peak-end effect during a cognitively demanding task.

We applied the peak-end paradigm that was first introduced in the pain literature to examine the experience of effort and discomfort during a cognitively demanding working memory task. A total of 401 participants were asked to rate their effort and discomfort during and after the administration of a working memory task, which systematically varied task difficulty within participants and task duration between participants. Over the course of the task, participants reported a decrease in reported effort and an increase in reported discomfort.