Kristjánsdóttir G
Department of Nursing, University of Iceland.
Scand J Soc Med. 1997 Mar;25(1):58-63. doi: 10.1177/140349489702500112.
The prevalence of pain combinations among school children is addressed in view of earlier findings of high pain prevalence in this population. The study considers the prevalence of combinations of three common pains headache, stomach pain and back pain-in a random national sample of 2173 Icelandic 11-12 and 15-16 year-old school children. According to the results from this study there is a 78.2% prevalence of monthly pain. One or more instances of weekly pain is experienced by 40.4% of the children, and 15.6% experience two or three pains weekly. Relevance of gender is greater when dealing with combinations of monthly than weekly pain. Combinations of weekly pains are more gender related than single weekly pains. Girls have significantly more frequent overall pain than boys. The distribution of pain combinations varies by age but not overall pain. The study yields important information about the extent of the overall problem of pain among school children and indicates the need to further study the correlates of different pain combinations in this age group.
鉴于此前该人群疼痛发生率较高的研究结果，本文探讨了学龄儿童疼痛组合的发生率。该研究在冰岛全国随机抽取了2173名11 - 12岁和15 - 16岁的学龄儿童，考察了三种常见疼痛——头痛、胃痛和背痛——的组合发生率。根据该研究结果，每月疼痛的发生率为78.2%。40.4%的儿童每周经历一次或多次疼痛，15.6%的儿童每周经历两到三次疼痛。处理每月疼痛组合时，性别的相关性比处理每周疼痛时更大。每周疼痛组合比单次每周疼痛更与性别相关。女孩总体疼痛的频率明显高于男孩。疼痛组合的分布随年龄变化，但总体疼痛情况并非如此。该研究得出了关于学龄儿童疼痛总体问题程度的重要信息，并表明有必要进一步研究该年龄组不同疼痛组合的相关因素。
