Health-related quality of life in adolescents with persistent pain and the mediating role of self-efficacy: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Persistent pain has a high prevalence among adolescents. Pain has been shown to reduce all aspects of the adolescent's health-related quality of life (HRQOL). In adult patients with pain, self-efficacy has been shown to mediate the relationship between pain intensity, disability and depression. However, little is known about whether self-efficacy acts as a mediating variable in the relationship between persistent pain and HRQOL sub-scale scores in a school-based population of adolescents. OBJECTIVES:To describe the experience of pain, HRQOL and self-efficacy, and to explore the association between pain intensity, general self-efficacy and HRQOL in adolescents with persistent pain by testing self-efficacy as a possible mediator. METHODS:The study participants were 78 adolescents

SUBMITTER: Grasaas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6993393 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature