Landscape of paediatric pain in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pain is impacted by various biopsychosocial factors, including context and culture. Children in Sub-Saharan Africa present with unique diseases with a high pain burden. Robust scientific research on paediatric pain in Sub-Saharan Africa is lacking.

Methods

A scoping review was conducted to describe the pain prevalence, pain management practices and health system factors impacting pain management and to map the relevant research landscape in sub-Saharan Africa. The search strategy combined pain, location and age-related terms. Studies from 2000 to 2022 from countries in Sub-Saharan Africa pertaining to acute, procedural and chronic pain in children from birth to 18 years were included. Searches were conducted in African-Wide EBSCO, CINAHL, Epistemonikos, PubMed,

SUBMITTER: Bhettay A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306223 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature