ArticleThe Clinical journal of pain2019
School Absence Associated With Childhood Pain in the United States.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of the psychosocial factors associated with pain in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2023Pooled it
- Age as a Mediator of tDCS Effects on Pain: An Integrative Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
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- Trajectories of school absenteeism in adolescents with recurrent pain: predictors and distal outcomes.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Efficacy of exercise-based interventions for pain intensity in children and adolescents with nonspecific chronic low back pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Review
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- Supporting Parents of Youth with Chronic Pain: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Supportive Educational Intervention.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Long-Term Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome Outcomes Survey: Educational, Economic, and Social Impact.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Understanding School Presenteeism and Absence in Adolescents Affected by Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Qualitative Study.Child: care, health and development · 2025Article
- Development, implementation and evaluation of a digital treatment for adolescents with chronic pain: a protocol for a multi-phase study.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Youths with Extreme Obesity: A High-Risk Group for Pain and Mental Health Impairments.Obesity facts · 2025Article
- Exploring Referral and Service Utilization Patterns Within an Outpatient Interdisciplinary Pediatric Chronic Pain Program.Journal of pain research · 2024Article
- Centering Patient and Clinician Voices in Developing Tools to Address Pain Related School Impairment: A Phase I Study of a Virtual Reality School Simulation for Children and Adolescents with Chronic Pain.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Cutting the cord? Parenting emerging adults with chronic pain.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2022Review
- Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Symptom Complaints among School-Aged Children: A National Longitudinal Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Integrated Features for Optimizing Machine Learning Classifiers of Pediatric and Young Adults With a Post-Traumatic Headache From Healthy Controls.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Children's Beliefs about Pain: An Exploratory Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Impaired School Functioning in Children With Chronic Pain: A National Perspective.The Clinical journal of pain · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe objective of this study was to estimate the national burden of school absenteeism associated with pain among 6 to 17-year-old children in the United States.
methodsData were analyzed from a large, nationally representative sample from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey. Associations between pain and school absence were analyzed using multivariate negative binomial models controlling for sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.
resultsThe sample contained 8641 participants, of whom 30.3% reported pain over the preceding 12 months. Mean number of parent-reported school days missed across the entire sample was 3 per child; however pain was associated with an additional 1.5 reported missed school days per child. Furthermore, pain was associated with higher rates of chronic absenteeism (missing >15 d of school): 6.1% of children with pain was chronically absent as compared with 1.3% of children without pain. Extrapolated to the nation, childhood pain in the United States was associated with 22.2 million additional days of missed school, whereas childhood asthma, in comparison, was associated with 8 million additional days of school missed. DISCUSSION: Associations between pain and school absenteeism highlight the need for interventions aimed at improving school attendance among children with pain.
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