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Brief report: cognitive functioning and academic achievement in children and adolescents with chronic pain
Greenly H Y Ho1, Susan M Bennett, David Cox
1Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6. hyh@sfu.ca
Objective:
To examine the patterns of cognitive functioning and academic achievement in children and adolescents with chronic pain attending a tertiary-care interdisciplinary pain service.
Methods:
The standardized psychoeducational testing results of 57 children and adolescents with chronic pain aged 8-18 were retrospectively reviewed.
Results:
On average, participants scored higher in general intelligence, verbal ability, nonverbal reasoning, word reading, and math reasoning than the general population. The level of academic achievement for most participants was consistent with their intellectual ability.
Conclusions:
In this clinical sample with complex, disabling pain, the group mean data do not indicate overall cognitive impairment, or a single atypical achievement pattern. Future research will need to look beyond cognitive and achievement scores to explore the links between school functioning and chronic pain in children.
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