Author, as appears in the article.: Fernández, LM; Salvat, I; Adillón, C
Department: Medicina i Cirurgia
URV's Author/s: Adillón Camón, Cristina / Menes Fernández, Laura / Salvat Salvat, María Isabel
Keywords: Posture Physiology education Pediatric pain Pain science education Pain perception Noise exposure Neuroscience education Musculoskeletal pain Management Children Child Backpack load placement Association Adolescents
Abstract: (1) Background: The aims of this study are to explore what beliefs children and adolescents manifest about the cause of the pain they describe, to compare whether there are differences between beliefs by age and the persistence of pain, and to relate the explanations of the cause of pain with current scientific evidence. (2) Methods: a cross-sectional qualitative study was used. The primary endpoint of the study was obtaining explanations of the cause of pain recorded by means of an open-ended question. The participants were school-age children attending a charted school in the province of Barcelona. (3) Results: The children and adolescents proposed a diverse range of explanations for the cause of pain that they reported in their responses. The most frequent explanation for the cause of pain were pathologies and injuries (45.95%), ergonomic issues (22.60%) and psychological issues (15.95%). (4) Conclusions: There is a lot of variety in the explanations that young people give about the cause of their pain in schoolchildren aged between 10 and 16 years old. There exists a high prevalence of explanations non-associated with tissue damage (ENAD) concerning the causes of pain described. It is necessary that future health prevention programs dedicated to early ages consider which beliefs about the cause of pain are the most frequent in the pediatric population.
Thematic Areas: Pediatrics, perinatology and child health Pediatrics Ciencias sociales
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: laura.menes@urv.cat mariaisabel.salvat@urv.cat cristina.adillon@urv.cat cristina.adillon@urv.cat laura.menes@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-9879-6769 0000-0002-9879-6769
Record's date: 2024-03-13
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/6/1007
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Children (Basel). 10 (6):
APA: Fernández, LM; Salvat, I; Adillón, C (2023). Expressed Beliefs about the Cause of Pain in a Pediatric Population: A Qualitative Study. Children (Basel), 10(6), -. DOI: 10.3390/children10061007
Article's DOI: 10.3390/children10061007
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2023
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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