You are here

Article Text

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

Primary Care and General Paediatrics
PO-0970 A New Growing Pains Diagnostic Tool:evaluation In A Mediterranean Clinical Sample
Free
  1. M Vassilopoulou1,
  2. A Spathis2,
  3. I Paspati2,
  4. M Tsolia3
  1. 1PICU, Penteli’s Children Hospital, Athens, Greece
  2. 2Orthopedic Clinic, Penteli’s Children Hospital, Athens, Greece
  3. 32nd University Pediatric Clinic, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Abstract

Background "Growing pains (GP)" is the most common musculoskeletal complaint in childhood.

Aim To investigate the sensitivity and specificity of a previously validated questionnaire, for the diagnosis of GP.

Methods From 01/2013–12/ 2013, a questionnaire (Tb. 1), was administered to parents of children aged 3–8 years,who visited an orthopaedic clinic of a general children’s hospital, as outpatients, complaining of lower limb pain of no apparent traumatic cause. An orthopaedic, blind to the parents’ answers to the questionnaire, evaluated the children. A researcher estimated the score of each one of the completed questionnaires and reviewed the orthopaedics’ clinical chart.

View this table:
Abstract PO-0970 Table 1

Questionnaire

Results 35 questionnaires were completed. According to orthopaedics, 21 children had GP, while according to questionnaire, 13 children did so. When the cut-off point was reset at 7, sensitivity was 91.3% and specificity 95.4%.

Conclusions The questionnaire quantifies parental answers and may assist clinicians in GP diagnosis.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-307384.1588

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.