K R Krishnan
Psychiatric disease in the genomic era: rational approach
Molecular psychiatry
recurrent pain increasing public health problem among schoolaged children potential negative impact childrens daily lives schoolwork overall aim study investigate whether recurrent pain school year 6 associated poorer academic achievement end elementary school school year 9 study followup study based data study health schoolaged children ume participants 1567 children aged 12 13 years attended school year 6 followup performed school year 9 children 16 years old children answered questionnaire recurrent pain headache stomachache backache information academic achievement collected school registers results showed weekly recurrent pain school year 6 predicted lower final overall grade points school year 9 children recurrent pain applied recurrent headache stomachache backache multiple pains girls boys recurrent pain predict secondary school eligibility however perceived problems academic achievement problems concentration partly mediated association recurrent pain lower final overall grade points sleep problems associated academic achievement therefore mediator thus results suggest recurrent pain may predict later impairment academic achievement problems concentration childrens perceived achievement school sleep problems may partly explain relationship