Welcome to the UCLA Center for the Interdisciplinary Study and
Treatment of Pain.
The UCLA Center for the Interdisciplinary Study and
Treatment of Pain included UCLA faculty and students from pediatrics, history,
sociology, anthropology and psychology. From 2002 to 2007, we conducted a
research project on chronic pain in children, sponsored by the National Institute
of Mental Health, in which we used narrative, linguistic, and statistical
analysis to better understanding the sociocultural and medical dimensions of
this understudied problem. We collected data on 179 children who attended
the UCLA Pediatric Clinics with chronic pain problems during this period, and
conducted long-form, semi-structured interviews with 72 of the children and 37
of their parents. The study was co-directed by Margaret Jacob, PhD,
Professor of History and Lonnie Zeltzer, MD, Professor of Pediatrics.
Publications from this study include the following:
Margaret C. Jacob, "Historians with Pain," Perspectives
on History November 2005.
Jennie C. I. Tsao, Marcia L. Meldrum, Brenda
Bursch, Margaret C. Jacob, Su C. Kim, & Lonnie K. Zeltzer. "Treatment
expectations for CAM interventions in pediatric chronic pain patients and their
parents." Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2
(Dec 2005): 521-527. PMCID: 16322810
Brenda Bursch, Jennie C. I. Tsao, Marcia L.
Meldrum, and Lonnie K. Zeltzer. "Preliminary validation of a
self-efficacy scale for child functioning despite chronic pain (child and
parent versions)." Pain 125 (Nov 2006): 35-42.
Jennie C. I. Tsao, Marcia L. Meldrum, Su C.
Kim, Margaret C. Jacob, and Lonnie K. Zeltzer. "Treatment
preferences for CAM in children with chronic pain." Evidence-based
Complementary and Alternative Medicine 4 (Sept
2007): 367-374. PMCID: 17965769
Jennie C. I. Tsao, Marcia L. Meldrum, Su C. Kim, and
Lonnie K, Zeltzer. "Anxiety sensitivity and health-related quality of life in
children with chronic pain." Journal of Pain 8 (Oct 2007):
814-823.
Ignasi Clemente, Seung-Hee Lee and John Heritage,
"Children in chronic pain: Promoting pediatric patients' symptom accounts
in tertiary care." Social Science and Medicine 66(March 2008): 1418-1428.
PMCID: 18272275
Marcia L. Meldrum, Jennie C.I. Tsao and Lonnie K.
Zeltzer. "Just be in pain and just move on": Functioning
limitations and strategies in the lives of children with chronic pain." Journal
of Pain Management 1 (April-June 2008): 131-141. PMCID:
19430542
Jennie C.I. Tsao, Subhadra Evans, Marcia L. Meldrum,
Tamara Altman, and Lonnie K. Zeltzer. "A Review of CAM for Procedural Pain in
Infancy." Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 5
(Dec 2008): 371-381 (Part I) and 399-407 (Part II).
Jennie C.I. Tsao, Subhadra Evans, Marcia L. Meldrum,
and Lonnie K. Zeltzer. "Sex differences in anxiety sensitivity among children
with chronic pain and non-clinical children." Journal of Pain
Management 2 (2009): 151-161. PMCID: 3072583
Marcia L. Meldrum, Jennie C.I. Tsao and Lonnie K.
Zeltzer. "'I can't be what I want to be': Children's Narratives of Chronic
Pain Experiences and Treatment Outcomes." Pain Medicine 10(Sept
2009):1018-1034. PMCID: 19594848
Ignasi Clemente, "Progressivity and
participation: Children's management of parental assistance in paediatric
chronic pain encounters." Sociology of Health and Illness 31 (Sept
2009): 872-878. PMCID: 19856490
Subhadra Evans, Rebecca Taub, Jennie CI Tsao, Marcia Meldrum
and Lonnie K Zeltzer. "Sociodemographic factors in a pediatric chronic
pain clinic: The roles of age, sex, and minority status in pain and
health characteristics." Journal of Pain Management 3 (July-Sept
2010): 273-281. PMCID: 21686073
Subhadra Evans, Marcia Meldrum, Jennie CI Tsao, Rebecca
Fraynt and Lonnie K. Zeltzer. "Associations between parent and child pain
and functioning in a pediatric chronic pain sample: A mixed methods
approach." International Journal of Disability and Human
Development 9 (2010): 11-21. PMCID: 21643522
Ignasi Clemente, John Heritage, Marcia L. Meldrum,
Jennie CI Tsao, and Lonnie K. Zeltzer. "Preserving the Child as a
Respondent: Initiating Patient-Centered Interviews in a U.S Outpatient Tertiary
Care Pediatric Pain Clinic." Communication and Medicine 9 (2012):
203–213. PMCID: 24575675
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