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Tine Vervoort

Tine Vervoort

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Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
5694
World Ranking
9201
National Ranking
132

Overview

Tine Vervoort is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a research focus primarily within the field of Medicine, with a substantial emphasis on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Their scholarly output encompasses 65 publications in Medicine, including 40 specifically related to pediatric health.

Their work spans multiple subfields, including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and General Health Professions. These areas collectively reflect a broad engagement with the biological, psychological, and therapeutic dimensions of medical science.

Key research topics addressed by Vervoort include:

  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Ethics in Medical Practice

Vervoort has published extensively in several academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Pain
  • European Journal of Pain
  • Pain Medicine
  • Journal of Pain
  • Journal of Pediatric Psychology

Their recent papers include:

  • "A "dyadic dance": pain catastrophizing moderates the daily relationships between parent mood and protective responses and child chronic pain" (2020, Pain)
  • "Mental Health Outcomes Among Parents of Children With a Chronic Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Parental Burn-Out" (2021, Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
  • "Attentional biases in pediatric chronic pain: an eye-tracking study assessing the nature of the bias and its relation to attentional control" (2020, Pain)
  • "The time course of attentional biases in pain: a meta-analysis of eye-tracking studies" (2020, Pain)
  • "Parental (non-)pain attending verbalizations moderate the relationship between child attention and memory bias for pain" (2020, European Journal of Pain)

Throughout their career, Vervoort has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Dimitri Van Ryckeghem
  • Aline Wauters
  • Mélanie Noël
  • Emma Rheel
  • Zina Trost

Best Publications

  • Facing others in pain: the effects of empathy.

    Liesbet Goubert;K. D. Craig;Tine Vervoort;S. Morley

  • A biopsychosocial formulation of pain communication

    Thomas Hadjistavropoulos;Kenneth D. Craig;Steve Duck;Annmarie Cano

  • Parental catastrophizing about their child's pain. The parent version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS-P): a preliminary validation.

    Liesbet Goubert;Chris Eccleston;Tine Vervoort;Abbie Jordan

  • Catastrophic Thinking About Pain is Independently Associated with Pain Severity, Disability, and Somatic Complaints in School Children and Children with Chronic Pain

    Tine Vervoort;Liesbet Goubert;Christopher Eccleston;Patricia Bijttebier

  • Perceiving pain in others: automatic and controlled mechanisms.

    Kenneth D. Craig;Judith Versloot;Liesbet Goubert;Tine Vervoort

  • Parental catastrophizing about child's pain and its relationship with activity restriction: the mediating role of parental distress.

    Line Caes;Tine Vervoort;Tine Vervoort;Christopher Eccleston;Marieke Vandenhende

  • Parental Emotional Responses to Their Child’s Pain: The Role of Dispositional Empathy and Catastrophizing About Their Child’s Pain

    Liesbet Goubert;Liesbet Goubert;Tine Vervoort;Tine Vervoort;Michael J.L. Sullivan;Katrien Verhoeven;Katrien Verhoeven

  • 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

  • Parental catastrophizing about their child's chronic pain: are mothers and fathers different?

    Tanja Hechler;Tine Vervoort;Maximiliane Hamann;Maximiliane Hamann;Anna-Lena Tietze

  • Children's catastrophic thinking about their pain predicts pain and disability 6 months later

    Tine Vervoort;C Eccleston;Liesbet Goubert;Ann Buysse

  • Catastrophizing about their children's pain is related to higher parent–child congruency in pain ratings: An experimental investigation

    Liesbet Goubert;Tine Vervoort;Annmarie Cano;Geert Crombez

  • Attentional processing of other's facial display of pain: an eye tracking study.

    Tine Vervoort;Zina Trost;Kenneth M. Prkachin;Sven C. Mueller

  • The effects of parental presence upon the facial expression of pain: the moderating role of child pain catastrophizing.

    T Vervoort;L Goubert;Christopher Eccleston;K Verhoeven

  • Threat of pain influences social context effects on verbal pain report and facial expression

    Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Johan W.S. Vlaeyen;Marjolein Hanssen;Liesbet Goubert;Tine Vervoort

  • Expressive dimensions of pain catastrophizing: a comparative analysis of school children and children with clinical pain.

    Tine Vervoort;KD Craig;Liesbet Goubert;Jo Dehoorne

  • Social modulation of facial pain display in high-catastrophizing children: an observational study in schoolchildren and their parents.

    Tine Vervoort;Line Caes;Zina Trost;Michael J L Sullivan

  • Mothers' and fathers' responses to their child's pain moderate the relationship between the child's pain catastrophizing and disability.

    Tine Vervoort;A Huguet;Katrien Verhoeven;Katrien Verhoeven;Liesbet Goubert;Liesbet Goubert

  • We Discount the Pain of Others When Pain Has No Medical Explanation

    Lies De Ruddere;Liesbet Goubert;Tine Vervoort;Kenneth Martin Prkachin

  • Children’s selective attention to pain and avoidance behaviour: The role of child and parental catastrophizing about pain

    Tine Vervoort;Zina Trost;Dimitri M.L. Van Ryckeghem

  • Parents who catastrophize about their child’s pain prioritize attempts to control pain

    Line Caes;Tine Vervoort;Christopher Eccleston;Liesbet Goubert

  • Worry and catastrophizing about pain in youth: a reappraisal.

    Christopher Eccleston;Emma Alice Fisher;Tine Vervoort;Geert Crombez

Frequent Co-Authors

Liesbet Goubert
Liesbet Goubert Ghent University
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez Ghent University
Melanie Noel
Melanie Noel University of Calgary
Kenneth D. Craig
Kenneth D. Craig University of British Columbia
Kenneth M. Prkachin
Kenneth M. Prkachin University of Northern British Columbia
Keith Owen Yeates
Keith Owen Yeates University of Calgary
Annmarie Cano
Annmarie Cano Wayne State University
Stefan Sütterlin
Stefan Sütterlin Østfold University College
Stefaan Van Damme
Stefaan Van Damme Ghent University
Jennifer Y. F. Lau
Jennifer Y. F. Lau Queen Mary University of London

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