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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2015 May;156(5):917–922. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000129

Table 1.

African-American
(n = 40)
Non-Hispanic White
(n = 38)
African-American vs.
Non-Hispanic White
N (%) N (%) X2

Sex 0.05
 Male 20 (50) 18 (47)
 Female 20 (50) 20 (53)
Tanner Stage 0.13
 1,2 3 (8) 4 (11)
 3-5 34 (92) 34 (89)

M (SD) M (SD) t

Age 14.6 (2.0) 15.0 (1.6) 1.19
Somatic symptoms 7.3 (5.9) 9.8 (8.8) 1.45
Functional Disability 3.6 (6.6) 3.7 (7.0) 0.07
Anticipatory anxiety* 2.3 (2.2) 2.0 (2.1) 0.67

Three African-American participants chose not to answer this question.

*

Assessed prior to temporal summation protocol.