Characterization of chronic abdominal pain in children at the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Provincial Pediatric Hospital
Abstract
Introduction: Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is a common symptom in children and causes great anxiety to the family. It represents up to 10% of pediatric consultations. It occurs frequently among schoolchildren and adolescents and in 85 to 90% of cases the cause is due to a functional disorder.
Objective: To characterize the behavior of recurrent abdominal pain in children admitted to the Eduardo Agramonte Piña pediatric hospital in the province of Camagüey.
Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective study was carried out, whose universe of work consisted of 122 patients admitted with a diagnosis of recurrent abdominal pain, during the study period. To obtain the information, document analysis was used by reviewing the clinical histories of the total number of patients treated and the bibliographic materials.
Results: Of a total of 122 patients studied, the most affected group corresponded to 13 to 18 years of age, followed by the school group of 7 to 12 years for a total of 73 and 45 cases, respectively. Among the factors that increased the frequency was sustained exposure to stressful situations related to the dysfunction of the child's family and social environment, expressed in the results: of 122 patients, 91 come from dysfunctional socio-environmental environments, with predominance in the schoolchildren and adolescents stages.
Conclusions: The number of patients with negative laboratory results was greater than that of positive ones, that is why abdominal pain of functional origin exceeded that of organic origin.
DeCS: ABDOMINAL PAIN/etiology; INPATIENTS; PREVALENCE; PEDIATRICS; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC.
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