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Heightened risk of pain in young adult women with a history of childhood maltreatment: a prospective longitudinal study.
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- Experience of Maltreatment Is Associated With Abdominal Pain Intensity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Children With Pain-Predominant Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2026Article
- Childhood maltreatment, trauma, and pain: trauma-related symptoms as mediators in a high-risk group.Pain reports · 2026Article
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- Examining mechanisms connecting child maltreatment and interpersonal violence to young adult pain symptoms in women.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Origins and Previous Experiences from a Gender Perspective on the Perception of Pain in Nursing Students: Study Protocol.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Impact of Childhood Maltreatment on Central Pain Processing in Individuals With Psychosis.Bipolar disorders · 2025Article
- Profiles of Trauma Exposure Type and Its Associations With Pain-Related Outcomes Among Adults With Chronic Pain: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study.The journal of pain · 2024Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Chronic Low Back Pain in Adulthood: The Role of Emotion Regulation.The journal of pain · 2024Observational
- Early childhood risk factors for later onset of pediatric chronic pain: a multi-method longitudinal study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
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- The impact of adverse childhood experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms on chronic pain.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Sex Differences in Pain and Its Treatment.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2023Review
- What are the Origins of Chronic Back Pain of "Obscure Origins"? Turning Toward Family and Workplace Social Contexts.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2022Review
- Childhood maltreatment and its role in the development of pain and psychopathology.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2022Review
- The Influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Pain Management: Mechanisms, Processes, and Trauma-Informed Care.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Adult retrospective report of child abuse and prospective indicators of childhood harm: a population birth cohort study.BMC medicine · 2021Article
- A Systematic Review of the Prospective Relationship between Child Maltreatment and Chronic Pain.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- A qualitative study of risk and resilience in young adult women with a history of juvenile-onset fibromyalgia.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2021Article
- Assessment of Somatosensory Function and Self-harm in Adolescents.JAMA network open · 2021Article
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Abstract
A child maltreatment history is reported more frequently among adults with chronic pain compared with the general population; unfortunately, studies have primarily relied upon retrospective maltreatment reports by adults with chronic pain. This prospective study assessed pain symptoms in a cohort of young adult women with a documented history of child maltreatment, compared with a matched cohort of women who did not experience childhood maltreatment. Young women (N = 477) were recruited between ages 14 to 17 years and followed annually to age 19. Of these women, 57% experienced maltreatment (ie, physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, neglect; n = 273) substantiated by child welfare record. Maltreated women were demographically matched to nonmaltreated women, also confirmed by child welfare record. In adolescence, post-traumatic stress was assessed. Women were contacted as young adults (Mage = 24.76; n = 383) and surveyed about their pain experiences, including the presence of pain in the past week, pain severity (0-10), and number of body areas with pain. Mediation path analyses examining the impact of maltreatment and adolescent post-traumatic stress on young adult pain were estimated through structural equation modeling. As adults, women who had experienced child maltreatment reported higher pain intensity, a greater number of pain locations, and were more likely to experience pain in the previous week than nonmaltreated women. Adolescent post-traumatic stress partially explained the effects of maltreatment on pain. Young adult women who experienced child maltreatment are at higher risk of pain, particularly when they also experienced post-traumatic stress as adolescents.
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