TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - Schoolchildren's experience of pain - a focus group interview study JO - Acta paediatrica A1 - Persson, Sara A1 - Warghoff, Alexandra A1 - Einberg, Eva-Lena A1 - Garmy, Pernilla SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - AIM: To explore the experience of pain in 10-12-year-old children. METHODS: This interview study included students (n = 42) in grade 4-6 in focus groups (n = 10) in southern Sweden (52% girls); mean age, 11.3 years (range 10-12 years). The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim and analyzed with qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The analysis resulted in one theme: Pain as a unique experience for each individual, which was divided into five categories: (1) Feeling bodily pain; (2) Pain related to the school environment and schoolwork; (3) Internal pain related to sorrow and grief; (4) Pain related to conflicts and remorse; and (5) Pain can be good. CONCLUSION: The children made distinctions between physical pain and emotional pain. Bullying, noisy school environments, grief and remorse were reported to be linked with headaches, stomachache, and heartache.

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LA - en SN - 0803-5253 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apa.15493 ID - ref1 ER -