The Comorbidity of Chronic Pain and Sleep Disturbances in a Community Adolescent Sample: Prevalence and Association with Sociodemographic and Psychosocial Factors

• Published in: Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) Vol. 13; no. 10; pp. 1292 - 1303
• Main Authors: Siu, Yat-Fan, Chan, Simon, Wong, Ka-Man, Wong, Wing-Sze
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.10.2012; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Adolescent; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Child; Chronic Pain; Chronic Pain - epidemiology; Chronic Pain - psychology; Comorbidity; Confidence intervals; Female; Humans; Insomnia; Male; Pediatrics; Prevalence; Psychology; Sleep Disturbances; Sleep Wake Disorders - epidemiology; Sleep Wake Disorders - psychology; Socioeconomic Factors; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teenagers; Young Adult

Purpose.  The comorbidity of chronic pain and sleep disturbances has received increasing research attention in Western clinical pediatric populations; yet, little is known about its sociodemographic and psychological correlates in non‐Western community pediatric populations. This study aimed to exam...