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The International Association for the Study of Pain

Differences in Pain-Related Stigma between Adolescents with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain -MO72

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Adolescents with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) frequently experience pain-related stigma. The current study compared pain-related stigma across three groups of adolescents with CMP; juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), chronic localized pain (CLP), and juvenile fibromyalgia (JFM). Findings supported greater pain-related stigma in adolescents with CMP with greater diagnostic uncertainty (CLP and JFM compared to JIA). These study findings highlight pain-related stigma differences for adolescents with varying CMP conditions and support a potential role for diagnostic uncertainty in explaining these differences. Youth with JFM also showed increased self-blame and expected future negative social interactions, leading to hiding their symptoms from others. Future research should continue to investigate factors contributing to differences in pain-related stigma experiences in adolescents with CMP, and ways to improve diagnostic classification to reduce medical uncertainty for adolescents with JFM.

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Emily Wakefield - Connecticut Children's Medical Center/University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Connecticut, United States) , Vaishali Belamkar - , William Zempsky - , Rebecca Puhl - , Barbara Edelheit - , Susmita Kashikar-Zuck - , Mark Connelly - , Christopher Theriault - , Amy Collier - , Chloe Hicks - , Mark Litt -

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