Pain threshold, tolerance and intensity in adolescents born very preterm or with low birth weight.

Background: Data on long-term consequences of neonatal pain is limited.

Aim: To assess whether perinatal factors, later pain experience and pain coping strategies are associated with altered pain threshold, pain tolerance and pain intensity in adolescents born preterm.

Study Design: Observational, longitudinal study (Project on Preterm and SGA-infants, POPS-19).

Pain coping strategies: Neonatal intensive care unit survivors in adolescence.

Background: Data on long-term consequences of preterm birth on pain coping later in life are limited.

Aim: To assess whether gestational age, birth weight and neonatal disease severity have effect on pain coping style in adolescents born preterm or with low birth weight.

Study Design: Observational, longitudinal study (Project On Preterm and SGA-infants, POPS-19).