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Baseline Characteristics of Children and Parents by Intervention Group |
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| Guided Imagery (n = 14) |
Breathing (n = 8) |
P-value1 |
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| Child Factors |
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| % Male |
23 |
50 |
0.17 |
| Years of age |
11.1 |
11.0 |
0.94 |
| Months of pain at enrollment2 |
24.5 |
13.6 |
0.30 |
| Days of pain previous month |
23.0 |
14.4 |
0.04 |
| Mean intensity of pain episodes |
2.7 |
2.7 |
0.88 |
| Days with a missed activity in previous month |
4.0 |
1.3 |
0.12 |
| Depression score2 |
6.6 |
7.1 |
0.80 |
| Somatization score |
6.5 |
4.0 |
0.15 |
| Children's Somatization Inventory-total score |
22.0 |
15.3 |
0.30 |
| Anxiety score2 |
9.7 |
8.3 |
0.36 |
| Perfectionism score2 |
9.0 |
8.1 |
0.43 |
| Separation anxiety score |
12.1 |
8.0 |
0.08 |
| Temperament |
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| Anger |
2.4 |
2.3 |
0.89 |
| Distress |
2.1 |
1.8 |
0.41 |
| Fearfulness |
2.2 |
2.4 |
0.54 |
| Activity |
2.3 |
2.8 |
0.24 |
| Sociability |
3.2 |
3.3 |
0.86 |
| Parent Factors |
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| Ethnicity |
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| % Both parents Anglo |
54% |
50% |
1.00 |
| Anxiety score2 |
3.7 |
3.1 |
0.73 |
| Somatization score2 |
6.9 |
3.8 |
0.13 |
| Depression score2 |
6.8 |
6.3 |
0.87 |
| Parenting Style |
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| Father caring score |
4.1 |
3.6 |
0.59 |
| Father overprotection score |
3.5 |
4.4 |
0.26 |
| Mother caring score |
5.0 |
3.8 |
0.09 |
| Mother overprotection score |
4.3 |
4.0 |
0.57 |
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1 Chi-square test or Student t-test 2 Geometric mean of natural logarithm transformed data | |||
Weydert et al. BMC Pediatrics 2006 6:29 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-6-29 |
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