Prevalence, characteristics, and impact of spinal and lower limb recurrent pain at age 13.

Objectives: To compare spinal and lower limb pain in adolescents regarding prevalence, characteristics, causes, and impact.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 13-year-old adolescents (female n=2210; male n=2353) from the Portuguese Generation XXI birth cohort. Data were collected between 2018 and 2020 through personal interviews by applying the Luebeck Pain Questionnaire.

Association between adverse childhood experiences and bodily pain in early adolescence.

We aimed to examine the relationship between lifetime exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) during the first decade of life and recent pain features reported in early adolescence. We conducted a prospective study using data from 4564 adolescent Generation XXI birth cohort participants recruited in 2005-2006. Adverse childhood experiences were reported by children at ages 10 and 13 years using a 15-item questionnaire.

Pain site persistence and changes from childhood to adolescence: a prospective cohort study.

Background: Pain is a complex experience that interferes with the well-being of youth who experience it. We aimed to assess whether recurrent pain sites in childhood can predict later recurrent pain sites prospectively.

Methods: Pain was assessed using the Luebeck Pain Screening Questionnaire at ages 7, 10, and 13 from the Generation XXI cohort.

Bullying Involvement and Physical Pain Between Ages 10 and 13 Years: Reported History and Quantitative Sensory Testing in a Population-Based Cohort.

We aimed to quantify the prospective association between bullying and physical pain in a population-based cohort of adolescents. We assessed 4,049 participants of the 10 and 13 years waves of the Generation XXI birth cohort study in Portugal. Pain history was collected using the Luebeck pain screening questionnaire.

Pain history and experimental pressure pain responses in adolescents: Results from a population-based birth cohort.

Background: Sensitized pain mechanisms are often reported in musculoskeletal pain conditions, but population-based paediatric studies are lacking. We assessed whether adolescents with musculoskeletal pain history had evidence of increased responsiveness to experimental pressure stimuli.

Methods: Data were from 1496 adolescents of the Generation XXI birth cohort.