Assessing the association between child maltreatment and chronic pain: a cross-sectional co-twin control study.

ABSTRACT:

Abstract

Although associations exist between child maltreatment (CM) and multiple chronic painful conditions, it remains unclear to what extent associations might be attributable to unmeasured confounding. We leveraged the co-twin control approach, which rules out genetic and shared environmental confounding by design, with cross-sectional, national Swedish data from the Study of Twin Adults: Genes and Environment (N = 25,418; M age = 33.2; SD age = 7.7; 55.7% female) to assess associations between the number of self-reported experiences of CM (ie, experiencing emotional or physical abuse/neglect, sexual abuse, or witnessing family violence before age 18 years) and self-reported endorsement of criteria for chronic widespread pain (CWP), lower back pain (LBP), and irritable bowel sy

SUBMITTER: Summit AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12829592 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature