Relationship between Pain, Somatisation, and Emotional Awareness in Primary School Children

Table 1

Description of variables in the sample of primary school children.

		N	%	min	max	xM	sd
Age		445		6	10	7.82	0.65
Age ≥ 8 year	Yes	306	68.80
	No	139	31.20
Gender	Males	242	54.40
	Females	203	45.60
Primary school classes	II	154	34.60
	III	270	60.70
	IV	21	4.70
No Italian	Yes	24	6.40
	No	421	94.60
KidsScreen 10	Total	445	92.97	13	50	32.90	6.34
Children’s Somatization Inventory (CSI)	Global	445	91.94	0	40	14.890	8.63
Item 5	Back Pain (BP)	167	37.52
Item 3	Chest Pain (CP)	118	26.51
Item 24	Limb Pain (LP)	250	56.17
Item 15	Stomach, Abdominal Pain (AP)	244	54.83
Item 1	Headache (H)	259	58.20
Item 6	Sore muscles (M)	134	30.11
Total pain	At least 1 site	377	84.07
	Severity of pain			0	3	1.54	0.93
	Number of sites			0	6	2.76	1.84
Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale for children (LEAS-C)
	Self	445		16	43	32.07	4.56
	Other	445		16	42	30.89	4.76
	Total	445		19	52	34.14	4.39
Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA)	Verbal expression subtest	445		23	52	30.02	5.26