Risk Factors for the Development of Multisite Pain in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Chronic pain has economic costs on par with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Despite this impact on the health care system and increasing awareness of the relationship between pain and mortality, efforts to identify simple symptom-based risk factors for the development of pain, particularly in children, have fallen short. This is critically important as pain that manifests during childhood often persists into adulthood. To date, no longitudinal studies have examined symptoms in pain-free children that presage a new, multisite manifestation of pain in the future. We hypothesized that female sex, sleep problems, and heightened somatic symptoms complaints at baseline would be associated with the risk of developing new multisite pain 1 year later.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Kaplan CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10592500 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature