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Pediatric chronic pain is a significant problem with conservative estimates that posit 20% to 35% of children and adolescents are affected by it worldwide [17,26,36]. Pain experienced in children hospitals is known to be common, under-recognized, and under-treated, with more than 10% of hospitalized children showing features of chronic pain [15 ...
Accompanying symptoms may include altered bowel pattern, pallor, diaphoresis, nausea, vomiting, sleep disturbances, and changes in oral intake. In at least 25% of cases, patients also have some loss of daily function and other somatic symptoms, such as headache or limb pain.
14 wrz 2011 · Chronic pain in childhood is a significant health problem. Long-term nociceptive and neuropathic pain does occur in children, but underlying mechanisms, treatment, and prognosis are influenced by age. Co-existing functional impairment and psychological symptoms such as anxiety and low mood are important co-morbidities.
Among children with chronic pain associated with a medical illness or condition (“secondary chronic pain”), would giving nonpharmacological, pharmacological or a combination of management interventions compared to placebo produce
key sociodemographic and psychosocial correlates of chronic pain in children and adolescents is needed. This manuscript outlines a protocol for a systematic review to update a prior review synthesising the published literature on the prevalence of chronic pain in children and adoles-cents. Specifically, the objectives of this review are to: (1)
22 gru 2020 · These guidelines focus on physical, psychological and pharmacological interventions for the management of primary and secondary chronic pain in children 0 to 19 years of age.
Chronic primary pain is characterized by significant emotional or functional disability and is diagnosed independent of identified biological or psychological contributors. Non-primary or “secondary” pain diagnoses is pain caused by a clear underlying aetiology such as a disease, injury, lesion or their treatment (5).
