Table 1: Demographic and clinical data of patients with juvenile fibromyalgia, juvenile idiopathic arthritis and of healthy controls. Patients and controls’ pain scores according to the perspective of the patients and the parents.
Fibromyalgia (n=50) | Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (n=50) | Health controls (n=50) | p-value | |
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Gender (feminine/masculine) | 43/7 | 41/9 | 42/8 | 0.86 |
Age at the onset of pain (years)* | 8.7±3.7 | 5.4±3.3 | - | <0.0001 |
Length of pain (years)* | 4.6 ± 1.9 | 6.9± 2.3 | - | <0.0001 |
Age of the patient at the time of the interview (years)*Θ | 13.5±2.7 | 12.4±3.5 | 12.8±2.3 | 0.13 |
Pain score at the time of the interview from the patients and controls’ perspective (0 to 10)* | 5.9±2.6 | 2.1±2.4 | 0.1±0.3 | <0.0001 |
Pain score of the previous week from the patients and controls’ perspective (0 to 10)* | 7.8±1.8 | 3.2±2.6 | 0.2±0.5 | <0.0001 |
Pain score at the time of the interview from the parents’ perspective (0 to 10)* | 5.9±2.9 | 3.0±2.8 | 0 | <0.0001 |
*Mean± standard deviation; ΘANOVA with Brown-Forsythe correction (F2,132=2.04; p-value=0.1337), Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (p-value=0.4272).