title: Pain Measurement in Children with Functional Abdominal Pain.
abstract: Functional abdominal pain (FAP) occurs frequently in pediatric patients. Lacking clear biomarkers, clinicians and researchers must rely on patient reports of pain intensity. Presently, there are challenges affecting our ability to use existing measures of self-reported pediatric pain intensity. This report discusses those challenges, finding that: (a) inter-rater agreement of children's pain intensity is generally low; (b) typically used approaches to measuring outcomes may yield high levels of unreliable reports of improvement;
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, 225 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, 60611, IL, USA.|Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.|Mary Ann and J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program, Chicago, IL, USA.|Children's Hospital of Chicago Research Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: John V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Lavigne
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Research Center for the Investigation of Functional and Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders in Children, Nationwide Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, 43205, OH, USA. Miguel.Saps@NationwideChildrens.org.|College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Miguel.Saps@NationwideChildrens.org.
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saps
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Abdominal pain; Clinically significant change (CSC); Functional abdominal pain (FAP); Pain; Patient-reported outcome (PRO)