BACKGROUND: Chronic non-specific @entity4512 is a common problem among adolescents. This study investigates the importance of future goals and goal frustration for adolescents and young adults with chronic @entity4512 compared to healthy adolescents. It also explores the impact that @entity158 intensity, @entity158 catastrophizing and @entity308 have on goal frustration for adolescents with @entity1118 . METHODS: Using a cross-sectional design, we compared the importance and frustration of future goals for 42 adolescents and young adults with chronic @entity4512 (41 @entity1 , 1 @entity1 ) to those of 42 adolescents without @entity158 (35 @entity1 , 7 @entity1 ). For the adolescents with @entity1118 , we also examined levels of @entity158 intensity, @entity158 catastrophizing and @entity308 to assess their ability to explain goal frustration levels. Statistics included t-tests, Mann-Whitney test and multivariate regression analysis. RESULTS: We found no differences in the importance of future goals, except for goals related to health, which were more important for adolescents with @entity1118 (p  =  0.03). Furthermore, adolescents with @entity1118 perceived higher levels of goal frustration in all domains, except that related to school (p  =  0.16). @entity308 explained goal frustration related to personal values (p  =  0.02), social acceptance (p  <  0.01), self-acceptance (p  <  0.01) and health (p  <  0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Dealing with @entity1118 in adolescence and early adulthood does not seem to change future goals, but is associated with perceiving barriers to achieving them. The level of @entity308 seems to influence this relationship. Some caution is required in generalizing the results due to the relatively low number of male @entity1 .

Future goals of adolescents and young adults with chronic XXXX .

@entity4512 :: ('MESH:D059352', 'Disease') :: ['musculoskeletal pain'] @entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'women', 'man', 'men'] @entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['Depression', 'depressive symptoms'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['pain'] @entity1118 :: ('MESH:D059350', 'Disease') :: ['chronic pain']
@entity4512 :: (MESH:D059352,Disease) :: ['musculoskeletal pain']
