Pain After Tonsillectomy Study

The intervention will draw from existing narrative-based interventions, past pain memory reframing interventions and findings from our recent data. Specifically, parents will be taught to reminisce with their children about the in-hospital and post-surgery periods by encouraging children to provide more explanations, using less utterances about pain, avoiding repetitions, emphasizing positive aspects of the child's surgery memory (e.g., when children used coping methods such as deep breathing, when they got a treat), and enhancing children's self-efficacy regarding their ability to cope with pain.