Chronic postsurgical pain is a health problem with a great societal impact: approximately 20% of all children and adolescents undergoing surgery will develop chronic pain. Importantly, the risk and protective factors that are known (e.g., anxiety, catastrophizing, pain beliefs and pain coping) are modifiable, thus there is a huge potential for the development of both preventive and protective programs to avoid the transition from acute to chronic pain or reduce the impact in the lives of patients when it has already developed.
Having to undergo surgery
Being between 8 and 18 years old;
Having signed the informed consent
Having an ASA risk between I and III
Not being able to understand Spanish
Having a physical and/or cognitive impairment that interferes with understanding the instructions and handling of the application (e.g., moderate to severe intellectual disability, blindness)
Participating in another clinical trial
Undergoing an urgent surgical intervention
University Rovira i Virgili
Lead sponsor
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
Collaborator