Predictors and Consequences of Pediatric Pain Symptom Trajectories: A 14-Year Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The present study had three primary objectives. First, pain trajectory from early childhood to early adolescence were modeled. Second, we examined how early childhood individual-, parental-, and family-level factors predict pain trajectories. Third, we evaluated consequences of pain trajectories in terms of anxiety and depressive symptoms, and substance use at age 16 years.

Design

The current paper is a secondary data analysis of a multisite longitudinal study. A total of 731 children and their families were followed from ages 2 to 16 years.

Methods

A growth mixture model (GMM) was used to identify pain trajectories from ages 2 to 14 years.

Results

The GMM revealed three distinct pain trajectories: (1) Low Pain Symptom (n = 572); (2) Increasing Pain S

SUBMITTER: Mun CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8677440 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature