ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2021
A Systematic Review of the Prospective Relationship between Child Maltreatment and Chronic Pain.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Peritraumatic Pain in Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Literature Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
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- Associations Between Childhood Adversity and Pain in Breast Cancer Survivors.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2026Article
- Impact of adverse life experiences on pain, depression, anxiety, and comorbidities: a youth longitudinal sample.Pain reports · 2026Article
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- Childhood maltreatment, trauma, and pain: trauma-related symptoms as mediators in a high-risk group.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Examining mechanisms connecting child maltreatment and interpersonal violence to young adult pain symptoms in women.Pain reports · 2026Article
- Childhood maltreatment and mental health: causal links to depression, anxiety, non-fatal self-harm, suicide attempts, and PTSD.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and musculoskeletal pain: the mediating effect of depressive symptoms.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Is Child Maltreatment Painful? An Exploration of Peritraumatic Pain in Child Maltreatment.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2025Article
- Childhood maltreatment and health in the UK Biobank: triangulation of outcome-wide and polygenic risk score analyses.BMC medicine · 2024Article
- Exploratory assessment of parental physical disease categories as predictors of documented physical child abuse.European journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Neurodevelopmental and Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Cognitive-Affective-Behavioral Pathways Linking Adversity and Discrimination to Daily Pain in African-American Adults.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- What is the association between childhood adversity and subsequent chronic pain in adulthood? A systematic review.BJA open · 2023Review
- Back Pain without Disease or Substantial Injury in Children and Adolescents: A Twin Family Study Investigating Genetic Influence and Associations.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The impact of adverse childhood experiences and posttraumatic stress symptoms on chronic pain.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- No Sex Differences in Self-Reported Childhood Maltreatment in Major Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: A Retrospective Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- A Theoretical Endogenous Opioid Neurobiological Framework for Co-occurring Pain, Trauma, and Non-suicidal Self-injury.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Review
- Modeling the transition from acute to chronic postsurgical pain in youth: A narrative review of epidemiologic, perioperative, and psychosocial factors.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2022Review
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Abstract
objectiveThe present systematic review aimed to evaluate the association between childhood maltreatment and chronic pain, with specific attention to the temporal nature of the relationship and putative moderators, including, the nature (type), timing of occurrence, and magnitude of maltreatment; whether physical harm or injury occurred; and whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) subsequently developed.
methodWe included studies that measured the prospective relationship between child maltreatment and pain. Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL were searched electronically up to 28 July 2019. We used accepted methodological procedures common to prognosis studies and preregistered our review (PROSPERO record ID 142169) as per Cochrane review recommendations.
resultsNine studies (17,340 participants) were included in the present review. Baseline participant age ranged from 2 years to more than 65 years. Follow-up intervals ranged from one year to 16 years. Of the nine studies included, three were deemed to have a high risk of bias. With the exception of one meta-analysis of three studies, results were combined using narrative synthesis. Results showed low to very low quality and conflicting evidence across the various types of maltreatment, with the higher quality studies pointing to the absence of direct (non-moderated and non-mediated) associations between maltreatment and pain. PTSD was revealed to be a potential mediator and/or moderator. Evidence was not found for other proposed moderators.
conclusionsOverall, there is an absence of evidence from high quality studies of an association between maltreatment and pain. Our results are limited by the small number of studies reporting the relationship between child maltreatment and pain using a prospective design. High quality studies, including prospective cohort studies and those that assess and report on the moderators described above, are needed to advance the literature.
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