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Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children
Poor emotional awareness (EA) seems to play an important role in the aetiology of functional somatic complaints featuring pain as a form of somatisation. The aim of this study was to shed more light on this relationship by investigating the links between pain, somatisation, and emotional awareness i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6260528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30538863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4316234 |
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author | Rossi, M. Bruno, G. Chiusalupi, M. Ciaramella, A. |
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description | Poor emotional awareness (EA) seems to play an important role in the aetiology of functional somatic complaints featuring pain as a form of somatisation. The aim of this study was to shed more light on this relationship by investigating the links between pain, somatisation, and emotional awareness in a nonclinical population of 445 children aged 6–10. Assessing pain through the Children's Somatisation Inventory (CSI), a very high percentage of the entire sample complained of experiencing pain at least one site (84.07%) over the preceding 2 weeks. Although no difference in the prevalence of pain (whole) was found when the sample was subdivided by Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale-Children (LEAS-C), a relationship between low level of LEAS-Self and prevalence of headache (H) was detected (χ2=7.69, p=0.02). LEAS (Self) was correlated with the intensity of back pain (BP) (r=-0.12; p< 0.05), H (r=-0.12; p< 0.05) but not with abdominal pain (AP). Pain worsened QoL, and the greatest negative correlation with total KidScreen-10 was found for abdominal pain (r=-0.14; p< 0.01). Our results suggest that low EA is a predictor of somatisation, BP severity, H, and severity of pain in general, but not AP. |
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spelling | pubmed-62605282018-12-11 Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children Rossi, M. Bruno, G. Chiusalupi, M. Ciaramella, A. Pain Res Treat Research Article Poor emotional awareness (EA) seems to play an important role in the aetiology of functional somatic complaints featuring pain as a form of somatisation. The aim of this study was to shed more light on this relationship by investigating the links between pain, somatisation, and emotional awareness in a nonclinical population of 445 children aged 6–10. Assessing pain through the Children's Somatisation Inventory (CSI), a very high percentage of the entire sample complained of experiencing pain at least one site (84.07%) over the preceding 2 weeks. Although no difference in the prevalence of pain (whole) was found when the sample was subdivided by Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale-Children (LEAS-C), a relationship between low level of LEAS-Self and prevalence of headache (H) was detected (χ2=7.69, p=0.02). LEAS (Self) was correlated with the intensity of back pain (BP) (r=-0.12; p< 0.05), H (r=-0.12; p< 0.05) but not with abdominal pain (AP). Pain worsened QoL, and the greatest negative correlation with total KidScreen-10 was found for abdominal pain (r=-0.14; p< 0.01). Our results suggest that low EA is a predictor of somatisation, BP severity, H, and severity of pain in general, but not AP. Hindawi 2018-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6260528/ /pubmed/30538863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4316234 Text en Copyright © 2018 M. Rossi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Rossi, M. Bruno, G. Chiusalupi, M. Ciaramella, A. Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children |
title | Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children |
title_full | Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children |
title_fullStr | Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children |
title_short | Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children |
title_sort | relationship between pain, somatisation, and emotional awareness in primary school children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6260528/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30538863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4316234 |
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