A Systematic Review of the Prospective Relationship between Child Maltreatment and Chronic Pain.

ABSTRACT: The present systematic review aimed to evaluate the association between childhood maltreatment and chronic pain, with specific attention to the temporal nature of the relationship and putative moderators, including, the nature (type), timing of occurrence, and magnitude of maltreatment; whether physical harm or injury occurred; and whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) subsequently developed. We included studies that measured the prospective relationship between child maltreatment and pain. Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL were searched electronically up to 28 July 2019. We used accepted methodological procedures common to prognosis studies and preregistered our review (PROSPERO record ID 142169) as per Cochrane review recommendations. Nine studies (17,340 participants) were i

SUBMITTER: Marin TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8469564 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature