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Health-related quality of life in adolescents with persistent pain and the mediating role of self-efficacy: a cross-sectional study.
Abstract
Persistent pain has a high prevalence among adolescents. Pain has been shown to reduce all aspects of the adolescent's health-related quality of life (HRQOL). In adult patients with pain, self-efficacy has been shown to mediate the relationship between pain intensity, disability and depression. However, little is known about whether self-efficacy acts as a mediating variable in the relationship between persistent pain and HRQOL sub-scale scores in a school-based population of adolescents.