Chronic Abdominal Pain in Children and Adolescents: Parental Threat Perception Plays a Major Role in Seeking Medical Consultations

Figure 1

Conceptual model for serial mediation in the relation between child’s pain symptoms and medical consultations, including coefficients for the direct pathways ( for pathways between predictor pain symptoms and each mediator ; for pathways between each mediator and the outcome medical consultations; for serial pathways between the mediators; for the direct effect between pain symptoms as predictor and medical consultations as outcome).