Table 2 Characteristics of acute pain clinical scenarios described in the questionnaires
From: Acute pain management in children: a survey of Italian pediatricians
Characteristic | Type of pain | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Headache N = 1596 | Sore throat N = 1593 | Musculoskeletal or post-traumatic N = 1546 | Earache N = 1600 | P-value | N = 6335 |
Intensity, N (%) | ||||||
 Mild | 572 (35.8) | 485 (30.5) | 384 (24.8) | 324 (20.3) | < 0.001 | 1765 (27.9) |
 Moderate | 674 (42.2) | 701 (44.0) | 679 (43.9) | 619 (38.7) | 2673 (42.2) | |
 Severe | 350 (22.0) | 407 (25.5) | 483 (31.3) | 657 (41.9) | 1897 (29.9) | |
Duration, N (%) | ||||||
 A few hours | 700 (43.9) | 344 (21.6) | 458 (29.6) | 875 (54.7) | < 0.001 | 2377 (37.5) |
 1 day | 373 (23.4) | 593 (37.2) | 414 (26.8) | 472 (29.5) | 1852 (29.2) | |
 Some days | 482 (30.2) | 645 (40.5) | 625 (40.4) | 250 (15.6) | 2002 (31.7) | |
 At least 1 week | 41 (2.5) | 11 (0.7) | 49 (3.2) | 3 (0.2) | 104 (1.6) | |