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Overview

Deirdre E. Logan is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with significant contributions particularly in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Additional subfields of specialization include Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Physiology.

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

Deirdre E. Logan has contributed to numerous publications across multiple peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Clinical Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Journal of Pain
  • Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Logan include:

  • "Leveraging Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality to Combat Chronic Pain in Youth: Position Paper From the Interdisciplinary Network on Virtual and Augmented Technologies for Pain Management," 2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • "From One Pain to Many," 2021, Clinical Journal of Pain

Other relevant papers where Logan appears as author or co-author include:

  • "Randomized clinical trial of Fibromyalgia Integrative Training (FIT teens) for adolescents with juvenile fibromyalgia - Study design and protocol," 2021, Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • "Initial Adjustment to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Associated Shutdown in Children and Adolescents With Chronic Pain and Their Families," 2021, Frontiers in Pain Research
  • "Clinical Characterization of Juvenile Fibromyalgia in a Multicenter Cohort of Adolescents Enrolled in a Randomized Clinical Trial," 2022, Arthritis Care & Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Jennifer Stinson
  • Sara E. Williams
  • Susmita Kashikar-Zuck
  • A. Lynch-Jordan
  • Mark Connelly

Best Publications

  • Parental Facilitation of Adolescent Mental Health Service Utilization: A Conceptual and Empirical Review

    Deirdre E. Logan;Cheryl A. King

  • Clinical utility and validity of the Functional Disability Inventory among a multicenter sample of youth with chronic pain

    Susmita Kashikar-Zuck;Stacy R. Flowers;Robyn Lewis Claar;Jessica W. Guite

  • School impairment in adolescents with chronic pain.

    Deirdre E. Logan;Deirdre E. Logan;Laura E. Simons;Laura E. Simons;Michelle J. Stein;Laura Chastain

  • The Fear of Pain Questionnaire (FOPQ): Assessment of Pain-Related Fear Among Children and Adolescents With Chronic Pain

    Laura E. Simons;Laura E. Simons;Christine B. Sieberg;Christine B. Sieberg;Elizabeth Carpino;Deirdre Logan;Deirdre Logan

  • Relationships Between Family and Parent Characteristics and Functional Abilities in Children with Recurrent Pain Syndromes: An Investigation of Moderating Effects on the Pathway from Pain to Disability

    Deirdre E. Logan;Lisa Scharff

  • Parental response to children's pain: The moderating impact of children's emotional distress on symptoms and disability

    Robyn Lewis Claar;Laura E. Simons;Deirdre E. Logan

  • Too sick for school? Parent influences on school functioning among children with chronic pain

    Deirdre E. Logan;Laura E. Simons;Laura E. Simons;Elizabeth A. Carpino;Elizabeth A. Carpino

  • Pain catastrophizing in children with chronic pain and their parents: proposed clinical reference points and reexamination of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale measure.

    Melissa Pielech;Maggie Ryan;Deirdre Logan;Karen Kaczynski;Karen Kaczynski

  • Social desirability response bias and self-report of psychological distress in pediatric chronic pain patients.

    Deirdre E. Logan;Robyn Lewis Claar;Lisa Scharff

  • The Illness Management Survey: identifying adolescents' perceptions of barriers to adherence.

    Deirdre Logan;Nataliya Zelikovsky;Larissa Labay;Jonathan Spergel

  • Engagement in multidisciplinary interventions for pediatric chronic pain: parental expectations, barriers, and child outcomes.

    Laura E. Simons;Deirdre E. Logan;Laura Chastain;Madelin Cerullo

  • A day-hospital approach to treatment of pediatric complex regional pain syndrome: initial functional outcomes.

    Deirdre E. Logan;Elizabeth A. Carpino;Gloria Chiang;Marianne Condon

  • Pediatric pain management: the multidisciplinary approach

    Shannon Odell;Deirdre E Logan

  • Severity of pediatric pain in relation to school-related functioning and teacher support: an epidemiological study among school-aged children and adolescents.

    Tine Vervoort;Deirdre E. Logan;Liesbet Goubert;Bart De Clercq

  • Parent Factors and Adolescent Sickle Cell Disease: Associations With Patterns of Health Service Use

    Deirdre E. Logan;Jerilynn Radcliffe;Kim Smith-Whitley

  • Aggressive behavior in clinically depressed adolescents.

    Michele Knox;Cheryl King;Gregory L. Hanna;Deirdre Logan

  • Parenting stress and parental post-traumatic stress disorder in families after pediatric heart transplantation.

    Lisa M. Farley;David R. DeMaso;Eugene D’Angelo;Carolyn Kinnamon

  • Parental identification of depression and mental health service use among depressed adolescents.

    Deirdre E. Logan;Cheryl A. King

  • A Social Robot to Mitigate Stress, Anxiety, and Pain in Hospital Pediatric Care

    Sooyeon Jeong;Deirdre E. Logan;Matthew S. Goodwin;Suzanne Graca

  • Social Robots for Hospitalized Children.

    Deirdre E. Logan;Cynthia Breazeal;Matthew S. Goodwin;Sooyeon Jeong

  • School Functioning in Adolescents With Chronic Pain: The Role of Depressive Symptoms in School Impairment

    Deirdre E. Logan;Laura E. Simons;Karen J. Kaczynski

Frequent Co-Authors

Tonya M. Palermo
Tonya M. Palermo University of Washington
David Borsook
David Borsook Boston Children's Hospital
Cheryl A. King
Cheryl A. King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert D. Kerns
Robert D. Kerns Yale University
Sarah E. Nelson
Sarah E. Nelson Harvard University
Tine Vervoort
Tine Vervoort Ghent University
Carl L. von Baeyer
Carl L. von Baeyer University of Saskatchewan
Lisa J. Meltzer
Lisa J. Meltzer National Jewish Health
Liesbet Goubert
Liesbet Goubert Ghent University
Lino Becerra
Lino Becerra Harvard Medical School

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