Average pain duration for the sample was 35.77 months,
or nearly 3 years. Pain intensity levels were in the moderate
range with an average VAS of 5.20. On average, self-report
of depressive symptoms on the CDI were in the mildly
elevated range compared to age and gender norms, but
25% of the sample scored above the clinical cut-off
(T-score¼65) for depressive symptoms. As shown in
Table I, pain duration and pain intensity did not appear
to differ between adolescents in regular school versus
homeschool. The homeschooled adolescents appeared to
have slightly higher CDI scores, but statistical analyses
were not possible due to the small number of homeschooled
participants. Mothers of adolescents with JPFS
reported suffering from an average of 5 pain conditions
themselves.