Table 3 Pain rating, duration of pain and results of depression inventories. Patient and parent’s rating of the child’s pain on a visual analogue scale (VAS), the results of Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) of the children, Beck’s depression Inventory (BDI) of the parents and duration of pain in months of all patients and of children (< 13.0 years) and adolescents (≥ 13.0 years) separately. Differences between children < 13.0 years and adolescents ≥13.0 years were tested by T-test* or Mann-Whitney U test# as appropriate
All | Age < 13.0 | Age ≥ 13.0 | 95% CI | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Mean (SD) | Median (IQR) | N | Mean (SD) | Median (IQR) | N | Mean (SD) | Median (IQR) | ||
Patient pain VAS | 128 | 37 (24) | 55 | 36 (26) | 73 | 37 (24) | −7.5 to 9.8* | |||
Parent pain VAS (proxy) | 121 | 38 (24) | 55 | 40 (25) | 66 | 37 (23) | −6.3 to 10.8* | |||
CDI | 127 | 5 (211) | 55 | 4 (2–11) | 72 | 6 (2–13) | −3.0 to1.0# | |||
BDI | 124 | 3 (1–6) | 55 | 3 (0–6) | 69 | 3 (1–6) | −1.0 to 1.0# | |||
Duration of pain (months) | 129 | 14 (3–54.5) | 57 | 10.5 (2.2–28.5) | 72 | 15 (3.1–60.0) | −11.1 to 1.3# | |||