A behavior rating scale usedto assess children’s distress and coping during medical procedures, as well asthe distress and coping promoting behaviors of their parents and health careproviders present in the room during the medical procedure. Acceptable validity has been reported for the codes of Child Coping, Child Distress, Parent Coping Promoting, ParentDistress Promoting, Nurse Coping Promoting, and Nurse Distress Promotingbehaviors via multiple significant correlations with the othermeasures, as well as a good to excellent interrupter reliability of the five-point scales (Blount et al., 2001).
Blount, R.L., Bunke, V., Cohen, L.L.& Forbes, C.J. (2001). The Child–Adult Medical Procedure InteractionScale-Short Form (CAMPIS-SF): Validation of a rating scale for children’s andadults’ behaviors during painful medical procedures. Journalof Pain and Symptom Management, 22, 591-599.
See ‘At-risk’ concept, Coping, Non-Communicating Children’s Pain Checklist (NCCPC-R), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Pediatrics, Psychosocial stress