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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain Manag Nurs. 2022 Dec 21;24(1):27–34. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2022.11.001

Table 2 -. Pain Catastrophizing Scale – Child Version (PCS-C).

Pre and post-surgery PCS-C scores are described as the sum across the three subscales to derive a total score ranging from 0–52. A higher score reflects higher levels of catastrophic thinking (Crombez et al., 2003). There are three clinical reference points: low (0–14), moderate (15–25), and high (26 and greater) catastrophizing (Pielech et al., 2014).

Preoperative Postoperative
Clinical reference n (%) Males
n=7		 Females
n=23		 Total
n=30		 Males
n=5		 Females
n=22		 Total
n = 27
Low 4 (57%) 10 (44%) 14 (47%) 4 (80%) 12 (55%) 16 (59%)
Moderate 3 (43%) 7 (30%) 10 (33%) 1 (20%) 6 (27%) 7 (26%)
High 0 (0%) 6 (26%) 6 (20%) 0 (0.0%) 4 (18%) 4 (15%)