title: Relations between anxiety sensitivity, somatization, and health-related quality of life in children with chronic pain.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To further understand the influence of psychological variables on pain and functioning in children with chronic pain by examining the relations between pain, anxiety sensitivity (AS), somatization, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and whether they vary as a function of age and gender.
  
  
  METHODS
  66 children (8-12 years) and adolescents (13-18 years) with chronic pain completed measures assessing pain intensity, AS (childhood anxiety sensitivity index), somatization (child somatization inventory), and HRQOL (pediatric quality of life inventory 4.0).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Somatization was significantly related to higher pain intensity. Somatization significantly predicted HRQOL over and above pain. AS was a significant predictor of impaired HRQOL for children and females in the sample, but not for adolescents or males.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Somatization and AS may be better predictors of HRQOL impairment than pain intensity in children with chronic pain. This may differ as a function of age and gender.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA.
authors.forename: Nicole E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Mahrer
authors.forename: Zorash
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Montaño
authors.forename: Jeffrey I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Gold
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010147:Pain Measurement; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000523:psychology*