Subgroups of Pediatric Patients With Functional Abdominal Pain: Replication, Parental Characteristics, and Health Service Use.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Prior work in a cohort of youth with functional abdominal pain (FAP) identified patient subgroups (High Pain Dysfunctional, High Pain Adaptive, Low Pain Adaptive) that predicted differences in the course of FAP from childhood into young adulthood. We aimed to replicate these subgroups in a new sample of adolescents with FAP using the original classification algorithm and to extend subgroup characteristics to include parental characteristics and health service use.

Methods

Adolescents (n=278; ages 11 to 17 y, 66% females) presenting to a gastroenterology clinic for abdominal pain, and their parents (92% mothers) completed self-report measures; adolescents also completed a 7-day pain diary.

Results

The replicated patient subgroups exhibited distress and impai

SUBMITTER: Stone AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7666007 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature