Youth with chronic pain experience anxiety and depression symptoms more often and more intensely than their peers without chronic pain, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.
“Many studies report increased anxiety and depression in youth with chronic pain compared with those without. However, findings vary greatly across studies, likely resulting from heterogeneous pain conditions and the use of different measuring tools,” Joanne Dudeney, PhD, a research fellow in the school of psychological sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, and colleagues wrote. “As