ArticlePaediatric & neonatal pain2023
Pain communication in children with autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review.
Article in Paediatric & neonatal pain, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Optimizing Dried Blood Spot Sampling for Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Therapeutic drug monitoring · 2026Article
- Over-Represented and Under-Served: Autistic Children and Young People Seeking Help for Suicidal Crisis in a UK Emergency Department.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Individualized Therapeutic Environments for Pain Management in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Autism spectrum disorder across the lifespan: Dynamic symptom trajectories and multidimensional support framework.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Describing the communication of autistic people during experiences of distress: A scoping review.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2026Article
- Procedural Support for Neurodivergent Children During Medical Procedures: A Scoping Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- Challenges and solutions in managing dental problems in children with autism.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2025Article
- Management of critical care emergencies in children with autism spectrum disorder.World journal of critical care medicine · 2025Article
- Nutritional management and autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2024Article
- Article
- Pain communication in children with autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review.Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2023Article
- Special issue on "Children's and adolescents' rights to participate in their pain management".Paediatric & neonatal pain · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience social interaction and communication challenges and often display repetitive, restricted patterns of behavior, activities, and interests. The concept of pain is regarded as one of the most complex human stressors due to its subjective and personal nature and the influences of multiple internal and external factors. Due to the complexity of this disorder, it remains concerning how children with ASD communicate their pain and how observers (i.e., parents, carers, and health care practitioners) respond to these children's pain communication. This scoping review aimed to identify how children with ASD communicate or express their pain. Ten studies met the inclusion criteria for further data extraction. Through reflexive thematic analysis, two main themes were identified: verbal and nonverbal responses used by children with ASD to communicate their pain that could influence pain assessment and management strategies. This review highlighted that children with ASD utilized various verbal and nonverbal methods to communicate their pain experiences and that these methods differed compared to children without disabilities. Furthermore, this review emphasizes the importance of holistic pain assessment strategies as well as additional pictorial support for children with ASD. This review recommends that future research should focus on understanding how the inclusion of different stakeholders in pain assessment for children with ASD, can contribute to holistic pain assessment.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.