Hodges K, Kline J J, Barbero G, Flanery R
J Psychosom Res. 1984;28(3):185-8. doi: 10.1016/0022-3999(84)90018-7.
Thirty children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) were compared to 67 behaviorally disordered (BD) children and 42 healthy children on number of life events experienced within the last 12 months and on amount of readjustment necessitated by these life events. The parents of these children were also compared on these variables as well as on a subjective rating of stress which they assigned to the life events. The results revealed that the children in the RAP and BD groups had significantly more life events and more stress associated with them than did the healthy children. However, the children in the RAP and BD groups differed in type of life events, with the RAP group more likely to have experienced life events related to illness, hospitalization, and death. There were no significant differences between the parents in the RAP group and the parents of the two comparison groups. Due to methodological limitations of the study, caution should be exercised in drawing conclusions from these findings until such time that future research provides confirmatory data.
将30名复发性腹痛（RAP）儿童与67名行为障碍（BD）儿童及42名健康儿童在过去12个月内经历的生活事件数量以及这些生活事件所需的调整量方面进行了比较。这些儿童的父母也在这些变量以及他们对生活事件所赋予的压力主观评分方面进行了比较。结果显示，RAP组和BD组的儿童比健康儿童有更多的生活事件且与之相关的压力更大。然而，RAP组和BD组的儿童在生活事件类型上存在差异，RAP组更有可能经历与疾病、住院和死亡相关的生活事件。RAP组儿童的父母与两个对照组儿童的父母之间没有显著差异。由于该研究的方法学局限性，在未来研究提供确证数据之前，应谨慎从这些发现中得出结论。
