PEDIATRICS Vol. 90 No. 5 November 1992, pp. 816-821
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Pediatric Pain: Interacting Behavioral and Physical Factors

Lonnie K. Zeltzer MD1, Ronald G. Barr MA, MDCM, FRCP(C)2, Patricia A. McGrath PhD3, and Neil L. Schechter MD4

1 From the Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
2 From the McGill University, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3 From the Department of Pediatrics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
4 From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford

Pain in infants, children, and adolescents warrants study from a developmental, behavioral, and physiological perspective because maturation of physical, emotional, and cognitive systems influences the way in which pain is experienced and expressed. Pediatric pain is an underdeveloped area ripe for study within the realm of developmental and behavioral pediatrics, as noted by documentation of its undertreatment in children. The focus of this paper is to present issues relevant to the study of pain in children, using the example of the recurrent abdominal pain syndrome to illustrate points regarding epidemiology, assessment, and intervention. It is the opinion of these authors that pediatric pain must be understood from a developmental perspective in both clinical and nonclinical populations of children. Multidisciplinary approaches to research in pain aids in understanding the development of nociceptive transmission and inhibitory systems, the development of pain expression, and the influence of context on pain experience and behavior. The goal of research in pediatric pain is to understand these systems within a developmental context so that preventive and therapeutic intervention strategies can be developed to reduce children's distress and pain-related disability.

Key Words: pain • behavior • abdominal pain • development

Submitted on July 22, 1991
Accepted on May 15, 1992


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